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(Un)intentionally funny? Most of the actors attempt to take on the mannerisms and voice inflections of the people they are playing. This seems to be a mistake to me. It feels like an extended SNL sketch. Perhaps we are too close in time to these people. For the most part roles come more across like caricatures rather than characters. The notable exceptions are Richard Dreyfuss (Cheney) and James Cromwell (H. W.) who try to find the characters they are playing rather than mimicking them and are superb.

Biopics as a genre generally suck and Oliver Stone as a director generally sucks. Both the genre and the director are fundamentally reductive. Stone's portrait of W. is uncomplicated, predictable, and uninteresting.

Watch it in-flight.

Jack wrote:He wrote Conan The Barbarian and then Milius cleaned it up. His career has been down hill evah since.

True that.

It's the only reason I wont have him killed as Thugutator, just beaten a bit.