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Rey S Feb 22, 2019 w was my favorite prezident why do you sladner hims so! you dont understand just what he did for the naitopn! neaked wams

Harry S Jan 13, 2019 What a waste of time! Not accurate or entertaining. Bush had some serious problems but this movie is a superficial portrayal of a country bumpkin. Bush was flawed but not in the manner this video portrays. Disappointing! See more

Kylo P Aug 13, 2018 8/11/18 The story just isn't that interesting. I think they did a nice job with the casting, and the actors do a nice job of "mimicking" their character. However, that isn't enough to overcome the fact that there isn't much to this story. Maybe it is in the too recent past. It just feels like it walks through one event to the next, and doesn't give too much entertainment value along the way. Disappointing. No reason to watch this one. See more

Jun 18, 2018 As an independent, I consider myself pretty neutral, party-wise. In fact, I voted for Bush twice. The first time because I didn't know any better and hated anything to do with Bill Clinton. The second time because while I had no interest in voting for Bush, I had even less interest in voting for Kerry. So, I get that Bush was immensely flawed and that if any of W is in fact true, then it's pretty scary someone like that can get to the Presidency. That being said, I've lost a lot of respect for Oliver Stone, a wonderful filmmaker who, even when stretching the truth for the sake of getting a message out, has made some of my favorite movies capable of sucking me in and holding my attention for hours. He is becoming the old uncle who you know is slowly losing his mind and all that respect you had for him as a kid begins to be diminished with each passing day you see his mental health slide. No matter what point Oliver Stone was trying to convey, and no matter how much truth there was to the content of his movie, he completely lost me when, instead of just using factual, public instances of Dubya's ignorance (for which there is plenty), Oliver destroys any ability to show an objective view of the Dubya rise to power by including private conversations, which he couldn't possibly know, and intentionally throws in a line or two implying pure stupidity. Dubya on the toilet having a private conversation with Laura indicating that there has never been a father-and-son presidential pair, but when Laura points out John Adams and John Quincy Adams, his response is, "Yeah, but that was 300 years ago." What is the point in that? Oliver, you don't have to sell us on the fact that he was an idiot. We all think that. In fact, we all seem a bit dumber ourselves for voting him into office in the first place. Some of us, twice. And while there are very interesting moments showing what I'm sure are relatively accurate insecurities of his place in the family name and the love of his father, when you pepper all of it with your own personal political smear campaign, you lose the audience. This was a poor movie released at an opportunistic time to kick a president while he was down after spending 8 years attempting to lead the largest world power through the worst domestic crisis since the Civil War and its unfortunate downstream impact around the world. I'm the first to criticize how dumb we are as a society, but we are all capable of making mistakes. The rest of us are lucky that an arrogant, past-his-prime, tasteless director isn't pouncing on us ready to make a film not only re-showing the world our poor decisions, but also blowing it out of proportion for the sake of amplifying those poor decisions. In fact, even making some up. I know Oliver's intent was to expose Dubya's stupidity. He only exposed his own. See more

Luke G Apr 15, 2018 A surprisingly sympathetic film that offers insight into the 43rd President's intriguing life.

Harry P Mar 5, 2018 A totally serviceable, well acted, well directed biopic whose timing was perhaps a bit too soon to be appreciated (no one back then wanted to feel even an oz of sympathy for Dubya) but I think paints a pretty realistic portrayal of a complex administration. See more

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