Vice

George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and Defense Secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.

Cast

Christian Bale

as Dick Cheney

Amy Adams

as Lynne Cheney

Steve Carell

as Donald Rumsfeld

Sam Rockwell

as George W. Bush

Alison Pill

as Mary Cheney

Eddie Marsan

as Paul Wolfowitz

Justin Kirk

as Scooter Libby

LisaGay Hamilton

as Condoleezza Rice

Jesse Plemons

as Kurt

Bill Camp

as Gerald Ford

Reviews

Gimly

Being Australian and under 30, Dick Cheney is not someone I ever payed a lot of attention to. I knew he shot that dude and the dude he shot is the one who had to apologise somehow, and that he was one of the evil puppet-master types who stood behind George W. That's it. So while Cheney as a subject ...

Stephen Campbell

**_Pretty enjoyable, very funny, but doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know_** > _We have guaranteed freedom, security, and peace for a larger share of humanity than has any other nation in all of history. There is no other like us. There never has been. We are, as a matter of empirical ...

Coronavirus

Vice (2018) Direction: 8/10 Filmmaking: 7.5/10 Story: 8/10 Acting: 9.5/10 Entertainment: 8/10 Musical Score: 9/10 Final Grade: 8.3/10 Standout Performance: Christian Bale Summary: Vice rises up against many of its competitors in the American Political genre of film as Dir...

GenerationofSwine

Well, it's not at all hard to make Dick Cheney look like an evil man. Unfortunately this film goes a bit beyond that and comes across as completely and totally bias About ten minutes into the film, it doesn't seem like you are watching something as fair and critical as Stone's W, or even as critical...

CinemaSerf

Christian Bale makes full use of his skills as an actor and of the prosthetics department to offer us an engaging, if largely speculative, account of the rise of Dick Cheney. A man of modest abilities at school, he managed to master and then to manipulate the American political establishment to the ...

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