67%User score 67 percent
The Contender
2000 · Drama · Thriller
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3.7K votes
The untold true story that changed the course of history.
George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and Defense Secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.
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Gimly
January 20, 2019
Being Australian and under 30, Dick Cheney is not someone I ever payed a lot of attention to. I knew he shot that dude and the dude he shot is the one who had to apologise somehow, and that he was one of the evil puppet-master types who stood behind George W. That's it. So while Cheney as a subject matter isn't something I can say I **care** about, it's also not material that's old hat to me either. I ended up watchi…
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Stephen Campbell
July 12, 2019
**_Pretty enjoyable, very funny, but doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know_** > _We have guaranteed freedom, security, and peace for a larger share of humanity than has any other nation in all of history. There is no other like us. There never has been. We are, as a matter of empirical fact and undeniable history, the greatest force for good the world has ever known._ - Dick Cheney; _Exceptional: Why the Wo…
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Coronavirus
March 16, 2020
Vice (2018) Direction: 8/10 Filmmaking: 7.5/10 Story: 8/10 Acting: 9.5/10 Entertainment: 8/10 Musical Score: 9/10 Final Grade: 8.3/10 Standout Performance: Christian Bale Summary: Vice rises up against many of its competitors in the American Political genre of film as Director Adam McKay delivers a very informative, dramatic, and what I can assume to be as accurate as possible tale of Vice President Dick Cheney, and…
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GenerationofSwine
January 12, 2023
Well, it's not at all hard to make Dick Cheney look like an evil man. Unfortunately this film goes a bit beyond that and comes across as completely and totally bias About ten minutes into the film, it doesn't seem like you are watching something as fair and critical as Stone's W, or even as critical as Liman's Fair Game. Instead what you get is a film that, well, that feels like a hit piece from start to finish and i…
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