Vice (2018)

7.5/10

Christian Bale was really good. It's funny, because I just saw him in "American Psycho" and its one of the more memorable characters in cinema (I think). As an American, I kinda had to see this. It's about Dick Cheney!

I didn't know he could gargle listerine! I also can't imagine him going "wooooooo" as a young Christian Bale in a bar.

I just hope someone makes one on Obama, who became Cheney-lite, extending the warfare state and other not-so-liberal things. I highly doubt this guy is going to make it. There was a mention of Trump, and just a brief swearing-in of Obama, which shows this guy isn't only partisan, but he's dishonest. He knows who the target audience is. Shame.

I did think the movie did humanize Cheney. The director actually gave Cheney the benefit of the doubt over his gay daughter, even going so far to say he wouldn't go for President because of the dirty that would have been dug up. And it showed a family how has received a lot of news, considering Cheney got Dick's only House seat, and the "I believe marriage is between a man and woman" between the sisters, who possibly still don't talk... The difference is that Cheney's history is public, and people (myself included after I post this) can search. Of course that comes to power.