Oliver Stone's W. is comparable to his other films about the American president (JFK, Nixon), which is to say, these films are much more about the Stones imagine versions of the reported events, as they alleged the reenactment. As such, W. Stone is the case for what he sees as the absurdity of George W. Bush 's ascent to the White House, and especially the arrogant mistake of the Iraq war. Josh Brolin is very good as the rogue son of George HW Bush (James Cromwell), Vice President for Ronald Reagan and the 41st President of the United States. Adrift in a sea of alcohol and wasted opportunities, the younger Bush is essentially due to the need for his father, rejecting the love and respect, which never really arrives. At a hatchet man for Bush Sr. 's administration, "W" (as his wife, Laura - played by Elizabeth Banks - call him) meets Karl Rove (Toby Jones) and heads toward the Texas Governorship, although his father " s attitude that the golden son, Jeb, the whole family, support in the Florida governor's offer.
Said in broken chronology, Bush focuses on the post-9/11 way to lead a "preventive war" in Iraq, although no hard evidence of weapons of mass destruction to justify. The main actors in W administration - Rove, Colin Powell (Jeffrey Wright), Condoleezza Rice (Thandie Newton), and especially Dick Cheney (Richard Dreyfuss) - all in closed session, the look and sound like all the investigative account of the New York Times and Bob Woodward about the inner workings of the administration, to the war. Much of this is very fascinating, if a little strange (Newton's performance is indeed strange), but the drama is often powerful, particularly around Powell's opposition to the tide for a supposedly slam-dunk war. A number of the film the main benefits, in addition to Brolin, are very strong, especially Cromwell, Jones, Wright, Dreyfuss and Bruce McGill as George Tenet. - Tom Keogh
- Actors: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, Ioan Gruffudd, J. Grant Albrecht, Sayed Badreya
- Directors: Oliver Stone
- Writers: Stanley Weiser
- Producers: Albert Yeung, Bill Block, Christopher Mapp, David Whealy, Elliot Ferwerda
- Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English, Spanish
- Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Rating:
- Studio: Lions Gate
- DVD Release Date: February 10, 2009
- Run Time: 129 minutes
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