It has very little unique insight to share, and the various styles in which it attempts to convey what it does have comes off as either misplaced or pretentious.

| Jul 14, 2024

With its inconsistent tones and struggles to maintain a steady pace in its storytelling, less is revealed about his actual legacy (than audiences already knew) versus the filmmaker’s disdain for the protagonist.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 14, 2024

McKay falls short of his fascinating attempt to both satirize and humanize Cheney.

| Dec 7, 2022

It’s a textbook example of how bad things can go when you have such rotten tone management and a dogged fixation on your message that smothers your storytelling and character building.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

The year’s biggest disappointment.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2022

If the purpose of Vice is to remind audiences about how angry we were throughout the early 2000s, then I suppose McKay was successful. But to what end?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 4, 2022

Even with a talented cast and huge ambition, Adam McKay's Vice is the year's biggest hot mess.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 20, 2021

There's no doubt that Vice will play best to those who regard Cheney as a political manipulator of the highest order, but even if you don't, do your best to appreciate the level of skill it takes to accomplish everything seen in this fantastic film.

| Apr 9, 2021

Ambitious and uneven, the film is an often devastating portrait of a corporate-military gangster.

| Feb 17, 2021

What contributes a good deal toward making Vice valuable and effective, in the end, is the filmmakers' genuine anger. They despise the warmongers responsible for some of the greatest war crimes of modern times. They deserve credit for that.

| Feb 11, 2021

Bale's uncanny take on the character is fuelled by a low key performance. He understands that Cheney knew the power of a carefully placed whisper out punches a tantrum every time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2021

Mean-spirited and empty, Vice lacks the depth and maturity of a quality biopic, instead focusing on fist-waving and condescension.

| Original Score: C | Jan 29, 2021

Since the unconventional, bitterly ironic comic approach was done before by this same filmmaker - tackling an equally serious subject - its originality is noticeably lacking.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 7, 2020

The guy who kicked off his career 18 years ago directing a Saturday Night Live segment with Alan Cumming and Jennifer Lopez had pulled it off.

| Nov 10, 2020

Aside from the performances by Christian Bale and Amy Adams, Vice is a complete mess. An inconsistent, self-righteous mess.

| Oct 2, 2020

We're living through Donald Trump now. Do we really need a feature film to take us back through Cheney?

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

McKay is a specialist when talking about the world of power and its intricacies [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 19, 2020

Christian Bale is uncanny as former Vice President Dick Cheney in Adam McKay's flashy, yet exhausting political takedown.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 3, 2020

Depending on your outlook will ultimately determine the enjoyment of Vice. If you can accept the tonal shifts with its Hollywood filmmaking conventions, Jesse Plemon's narration and fourth wall breaks, then Vice is a wildly inventive biopic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2020

Either the movie is stupid, or it believes the audience is stupid. Neither is a good look.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2020