“I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults,” Dick Cheney says at the very beginning of the new Showtime documentary “The World According to Dick Cheney.”
No, he doesn’t, and especially not during this nearly two-hour movie from R.J. Cutler (“The War Room”). Faced with questions on his belief in waterboarding and his push to invade Iraq for its alleged stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, George W. Bush’s vice president defends his decisions in a passionless, blasé manner. He exhibits about as much introspection as the cold fish we see him trying to catch when Cutler follows him on a fly-fishing trip in Wyoming.
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worst vp ever, worse than traitor aaron burr
I think in trying to be objective, the film makers didn't push Cheney very hard. What I think was meant to be factual ended up superficial. The various talking heads, who could have provided the context and background for so much of what was declared, were under-utilized and a missed opportunity. As my husband says -- this is an hour and a quarter I'll never get back. Nothing new, nothing deep, noting that even explains why, other than the relationship with Rumsfeld.