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The World According to Dick Cheney

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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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Mary McNamara Los Angeles Times 03/15/2013
4/5
The facts of Cheney's rise to vice presidential power are fairly well known, but Cutler assembles them here with propulsive brevity. Go to Full Review
Verne Gay Newsday 03/15/2013
B
Not a lot new here, but Cheney gets a fair hearing -- even though a tougher one is occasionally warranted. Go to Full Review
Alessandra Stanley New York Times 03/15/2013
3/5
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. Go to Full Review
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Hoi Y @HoiYo 08/12/2023 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. See more Scott R @ScottR 08/11/2016 A fair view on a controversial figure. Very informative of the process and power. See more 05/09/2016 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. See more 07/13/2013 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. See more 05/28/2013 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. See more 05/11/2013 This is a must see for everyone. See more Read all reviews
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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