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Recommended. A must see worldwide. Kept me on the edge of my seat. Dick Cheney's unauthorised biography consisting of dramatisations, with excellent Steve Carell as Don Rumsfeld, and archive footage. Feels much like a Michael Moore's documentary. Cheney is a dick but he's not thick. He's close to death of heart attacks 3 times but, as we say in Poland, devils don't take an evil one. That's the story of a man with a heart so corrupted it needed a replacement - with a heart of a veteran of a war the White House waged. He's machiavellian and insatiably hungry for power. He was behind the bill which removed the 1940s law saying the media have to cover both sides equally which resulted in the creation of Fox News which spun fake news and moved TV to the right. He manipulated intel and people around him incessantly to instigate the war on Iraq after which the value of Halliburton, the oil company he's the CEO of, rose by 500%. He's played everyone round him, young George W. Bush especially, and has become cold-blooded over years. Only his weapons dealing is not mentioned. But lots of dirty deeds are here. It also claims that George W. Bush bought the ranch he's famous for just to look like a people's man, not a Yale and Harvard guy. Dick Cheney got kicked out of Yale for drinking and brawling and graduated from Wisconsin, by the way. Top-notch make-up and other body transformations let you see both Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne from youth to quite advanced age played consistently by Christian Bale and Amy Adams. Even a dramatic sequence depicting 1963 got aged visually. There's a mid-credit. Does knowing facts make you a liberal?
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