W.

Oliver Stone has not produced a sendup of the president nor a wholesale takedown, the film looks like a traditional biopic. I was surprisingly and thoroughly entertained by Josh Brolin playing the frat boy who would be king, while Richard Dreyfuss creeps around in a Dick Cheney sneer. As far as I could tell the story and dialogue, with the exception of a weird dream sequence near the end, was based on real words and events. Maybe some of it was slightly out of context. But this was not a hatchet job. W. is not a documentary but it is entertainment.  [ RT ]