Review of Vice (2018) by Adambeam — 26 Jan 2019

A movie that is practically carried on the shoulders of one actor, while the others do an admirable job like Adams, Rockwell, Carrel,they're all led by Christian Bale's showstopping performance as former VP Dick Cheney.

With one of Bale's most impressive physical transformations, looking nearly identical to that of Cheney, he becomes the man personality wise as well. I also enjoy that while the movie paints Cheney as the bad guy, they do admit that a lot of what they do is merely speculation, as they know that very little is known about Cheney and his activities in office.

However the movie is hurt by some very weird choices, especially in the narrative. The movie is randomly interrupted by random scenes and some very obnoxious editing choices, as well as a narrator character that really doesn't serve any other purpose then explaining all the political talk and one joke towards the end, as well as inconsistently placing him into some random points in the movie.

Overall the movie is just kind of confused in what it wants to be, but is really held together by the glue of Bale's performance, which I cannot praise enough.