Humanizing Bush did little to arouse my sympathies. Maybe the guy does have a Daddy hangup, but I find it difficult to believe that Bush has enough self-awareness to show the kind of anguish he was depicted as having.
Dreyfuss made a damn good Cheney. The fellow who played Karl Rove looked a lot like him in the face, but there was something a little too Igor-ish about his demeanor--though I might say Rove is "objectively" an Igor in one of my neo-Stalinist moments.
One more cavil: Bush is a boorish, dyslexic, semi-literate and intellecually incurious bumpkin, but I don't think he is stupid across the board. I can't put my finger on it myself, but he's got some kind of sly smarts that somebody ought to define...
I can always find something to complain about, but I thought it was a pretty good movie all the same.
R.
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