The World According to Dick Cheney

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The World According to Dick Cheney

2013

1h 49m

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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.

Mary McNamara

Los Angeles Times

The facts of Cheney's rise to vice presidential power are fairly well known, but Cutler assembles them here with propulsive brevity.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 15, 2013

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Verne Gay

Newsday

Not a lot new here, but Cheney gets a fair hearing -- even though a tougher one is occasionally warranted.

Rated: B

Mar 15, 2013

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Alessandra Stanley

New York Times

The 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.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 15, 2013

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Glenn Garvin

Miami Herald

The 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.

Mar 13, 2013

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Ed Bark

Uncle Barky

One doesn't expect miracles from a film of this sort. But it's as if Cutler and company didn't even try to engage Cheney and draw him out.

Mar 12, 2013

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Jeremy Mathews

Paste Magazine

Despite the shortcomings of the interview, the film assembles a portrait of the man's life, eventually keying in on his time as vice president to George W. Bush.

Rated: 6.6/10

Feb 5, 2013

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Hoi Y

Just the right enough detail to upset me and reluctantly keep watching. Cheney was the biggest mistake Bush ever made. A true, cold-blooded, malicious psychopath. May suffer much and rot in hell.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/12/23

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Scott R

A fair view on a controversial figure. Very informative of the process and power.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

08/11/16

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R Treybian P

So I watched this a few days ago. Dick Cheney is so full of himself. He believed his own hype. He can't even admit he was wrong, as he walks us through his interpretation of the Bush years. From 9/11 to the dumbass wars, THAT WE'RE STILL IN, he is completely unapologetic in the path he has set America on. R.J. Cutler did a great job balancing out the hype, with facts. But I really do believe the Cheney & Rumsfeld are war criminals.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

05/09/16

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Nick E

A risible apologetic for Dick Cheney. This "documentary" essentially allows Cheney to make one propagandist statement after another without rebuttal. The makers of this film clearly want to paint Cheney in a sympathetic light and admonish him for his wrongdoing. Even when his lies are pointed out the film, they're accompanied by some half-assed justification from Cheney's personal aides and biographers. I had a real problem with who the filmmakers decided to interview for this film. We get so many talking head apologists it made my head hurt, and the interviews with Cheney himself utterly fail in their attempts to humanize him. At no point did Dick Cheney come off in any way sincere in his interviews. This isn't the fault of the filmmakers, but I was disgusted by how complicit this film is in aiding Cheney's transparent attempts to explain away things like lying about WMD's. I don't need a Michael Moore style hit piece, but this documentary is a dishonest piece of propaganda that seriously plays fast and loose with the facts.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

07/13/13

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Sooty M

Here's a summary of what goes on in Dick Cheney's noggin about 100% of the time (even when he's sleeping): I'm too awesome. So awesome in fact I dunno what to do with myself.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

05/28/13

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Jason L

This is a must see for everyone.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/11/13

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Francis Gasparini

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Synopsis

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.

Director: Greg Finton, R.J. Cutler
Producer: R.J. Cutler, Francis Gasparini, Ryan Gallagher, Trevor Smith
Screenwriter: Francis Gasparini, R.J. Cutler
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 49m