STARRING: Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men), Elizabeth Banks (Definitely, Maybe), James Cromwell (The Queen) DIRECTOR: Oliver Stone (JFK, Nixon, Alexander, Wall Street, Platoon)
WRITER: Stanley Weiser (Wall Street)
PLOT: While focusing on George W Bush’s ultimate decision to go to war, we see his rise from college years to the presidency.
FIVE OBSERVATIONS
4Good and bad impressions. Thandie Newton (Crash) is terrible as Condoleezza Rice. She’s trying too hard to do an impression, which doesn’t work and doesn’t display any realism. Richard Dreyfuss (Jaws) and Jeffrey Wright (Shaft) do great jobs as Cheney and Powell; they also seem to be the smartest of the bunch. James Cromwell doesn’t even bother to do any George Bush Sr. mannerisms.
Almost wished they cast Dana Carvey.
4 Josh Brolin is fantastic as W. While sometimes a dead-ringer and sometimes not, he manages to create a multi-layered character which commands the screen every time he’s on it.
4 I thought Stone would be more brutal but he basically makes George W look quite pathetic and even sympathetic at times.
4 The story tends to drag too many times and is a bit long. I wouldn’t expect much more from Oliver Stone though.
4 The soundtrack was awful. It’s like he was going the Michael Moore route using songs like “Robin Hood” and “Yellow Rose of Texas” ad nauseam.
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