
A revealing profile of Dick Cheney, one of the world's most controversial and powerful political figures. Award-winning documentary filmmaker R.J. Cutler gives us a surprisingly personal look into the life of the former Vice President from his early days in Washington to his time in the White House with President George W. Bush.... (Full plot summary below)
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A revealing profile of Dick Cheney, one of the world's most controversial and powerful political figures. Award-winning documentary filmmaker R.J. Cutler gives us a surprisingly personal look into the life of the former Vice President from his early days in Washington to his time in the White House with President George W. Bush.
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| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirCheney's political odyssey is literally like no one else's. |
| NewsdayVerne GayNot a lot new here, but Cheney gets a fair hearing -- even though a tougher one is occasionally warranted. |
| Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraThe facts of Cheney's rise to vice presidential power are fairly well known, but Cutler assembles them here with propulsive brevity. |
| Miami HeraldGlenn GarvinThe World has plenty of dissenting interviews with journalists and lefty policy wonks who say that the measures Cheney employed were neither necessary nor productive. Cheney shrugs off their arguments. |
| New York TimesAlessandra StanleyThe World According to Dick Cheney has interesting insights and revealing moments, but for critics who long to confront Mr. Cheney it may prove dissatisfying, because it allows him to make astonishing assertions without direct contradiction. |
| San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandThe film probably won't change anyone's opinion of the man, but that doesn't make Cheney any less of a fascinating figure. |
| User ReviewAlex WPower is a helluva drug. He was basically the 43rd President. |
| User ReviewGeophrey GDick Cheney was the most powerful VP ever. Dennis Haysbert will tell you. |
| User ReviewChristopher BExcellent interview with documentary bits interspersed. Did you know young Cheney was a college dropout who worked a blue-collar job? When he looks straight into the camera and disagrees about how some things happened; and substantive facts don't wholly support his opinions, we see how his 1% doctrine = delusional. Quite enlightening. |
| User ReviewSue SNo surprises, even though I think Cheney was treated somewhat softly in the documentary. For instance he mentions how his parents were Democrats but how when he was in college in Wisconsin he was so turned off by the Vietnam war protesters (and he was a supporter of the war effort) but there was no mention of any of his 5 war deferments. Little things like that matter to people but wasn't covered. The doc did show the deep rift in the 2nd term between Bush-Cheney with the first being Rumsfeld let go right after the 2nd election and then the deeper schism from Scooter Libby and Bush refusing to pardon him for lying. |