"W."

W. (2008, Oliver Stone)

Saw this Sunday night with my brother Paddy and my girlfriend Steph at SilverCity in Gloucester. Had a bottle of diet Dr. Pepper and some dark chocolate Hershey Kisses.

Josh Brolin does a great job as still-President Bush, and many of the supporting actors are good, especially Richard Dreyfuss as Dick Cheney, but I'm not sure there's much point to this film right now. Some people say it's too soon, and no one's in the mood for a movie about Bush, but I think it's really that there's no real new information here. It feels more like a TV movie-of-the-week. Oliver Stone should have waited 10 years or so, to let history start settling the dust of Bush's presidency. But, solid effort, and great work from Brolin.