IMDb plot summary: The story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today.
Directed by Adam McKay. Starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, and Sam Rockwell.
Adam McKay's last big comedy-biopic-drama endeavor, The Big Short, became one of my favorite movies of the year. I loved how it took this complicated concept that people brushed off as too difficult to explain and simplified it to give a general idea of how, in fact, the 2008 housing crisis had happened (and the effects those actions still have today). Vice attempts to do the same thing with the Iraq War invasion and Cheney's involvement with it, but focusing the story all on one man does not seem to be McKay's strength. While Big Short deftly delved into the "why" of a system, Vice attempts to explore the "why" of a human... but then does not do it particularly well. It feels stretched and aimless, and the sharper points McKay wants to make get lost in all of it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Vice < 300
Vice > Mulan
Vice < Good Morning, Vietnam
Vice > Charlie Wilson's War
Vice > Hellraiser
Vice > Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Vice > Holiday (1938)
Vice < Melinda and Melinda
Vice < The Pajama Game
Vice > Where the Red Fern Grows
Vice < The Year Without a Santa Claus
Final spot: #1882 out of 2980.
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