Vice

This movie just didn't sit right with me. It was propaganda. It was a mean-spirited, personal movie about former Vice President Dick Cheney. The symbolism, metaphors, whatever, were so blatant and cheap, it seemed like amateur film making. Not a single thing bad is ever said or implied about any of the Democrats in the movie. Every Republican is portrayed as dumb or sinister. I love this director, but this was not his finest hour. He needs to be reined in for his next film and get back to business. I mean, so much of this movie really needed a second opinion because of all the randomly inserted clips that seemed to be nothing more than cheap shots. Worse yet, having grown up around the nineties and early 2000s, there's so much that the director/writer missed out on that ran up to the Iraq War and War on Terror. If you watched CNN and The History Channel, most of the programming during the day was devoted to Saddam and Osama Bin Laden. That's not a coincidence. This was in the planning for decades. Also, you could look at the map and see what the ultimate goal was in the War on Terror. Dick Cheney would have a good laugh at the Adam McKay for totally missing the forest from the trees. I mean, Hollywood did make a number of anti-Persian movies in the first decade or so of the 2000s including Troy, 300 and Argo. So much attention was paid to focus groups and how they supposedly manipulate public opinion but none towards the clear connection between the entertainment industry and the government's objectives? How do you overlook that? It would be one thing to make a movie like this about Republicans, but don't give the Democrats a total pass on everything. That completely ruins your credibility and objectivity. They are every bit as ruthless. Thankfully, I've seen both sides and will not let a movie like this influence me, but others didn't have that luxury like I did.

At the beginning of the movie, they say they don't know the real facts. So they say (in so many words) that they just made up their own. 95% of the dialogue is invented out of thin air. Why on Earth do you write am movie based on real people and events with so little to work with? Why? Because it is purely a liberal hack job for sheep to gobble up every word.

You might like this if you're an extreme liberal. If you're just a liberal, or a centrist, or conservative of any kind, you will probably not enjoy this movie. I walked out and described this as "Michael Moore's more liberal brother must have made this movie." I wouldn't like this kind of movie in any month or season of the year, but the fact we chose this as our family Christmas movie this year and all 6 of us (which includes a wide variety on the political spectrum) walked out and thought it was completely terrible makes the experience even worse. It's too bad too, because I'm a big Amy Adams fan. We also think highly of Bale and Carell.