Jack & I wanted this to be meaner. Unfortunately for us, most of the best gaffes were in the trailer. Josh Brolin did really sink his teeth into the role and the rest of the first-rate cast did very well, except Thandie Newton as Condoleeza Rice with a sneer, a strange tooth prosthesis, and very few lines. James Cromwell, who looked the least like his character (Bush Sr.) of any of them, gave a powerful performance and the too-short scenes with Ellen Burstyn as Barbara were great. We were so eager to see this that we went opening day, and it's worth your time, but maybe not worth changing your plans for it. The advantage of changing our plans was that we went to a theatre outside of our usual rotation, and enjoyed comfortable seats and a near-perfect screen. Oliver Stone gave us his dependable high production quality which was shown to good advantage at this place, only a few years old. At 2 hours 9 minutes, it wasn't short, but W. left out so much we felt a little cheated. There was a slight bonus at the very end, after the credits. It's just a graphic, but we appreciated it.
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