W.

Year: 2008

Grade: C

Country: USA

Director: Stone

Review

not quite as i had predicted, which was nice at first. i liked that it wasn’t a complete smear piece because there are plenty of those around already. unfortunately, the worst stone seems to have to say about bush is that he’s an innocent buffoon, a victim of his father’s success, jeb’s shadow, and those around him – chiefly rove and cheney. i think a better film would have shown the idiotic parts of bush for comic relief, but also revealed his part in the fiasco known as the bush administration. jumping around in time was interesting, but i didn’t find much reason to the scenes that were juxtaposed. this marks another dud in stone’s recent filmography if you ask me. he had as much material to work with as one can have with a biopic yet his pissed it away by telling a sad little story about an idiot with daddy issues. colin powell comes out looking like a saint. oh wait, he lied in front of the u.n. good job.

Watched in theater