Variety Clips Oliver Stone's George W. Bush Bio as "Overly Conventional"

October 7, 11:18 AMPop Culture ExaminerDominic Patten

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                 Not Quite Ready for the Big Screen?

The movie about the life of the man who is still President by one of the incessant chroniclers of our time is expected to hit the silver screen in a just over a week and a half.

According to Hollywood's Holy Book, it might have been better to wait.

The review on the magazine's site says 

"The film is unable to achieve any aims higher than as a sort of engaging pop-history pageant and amateur, if not inapt, psychological evaluation, due to the unavoidable lack of perspective and a final act that has yet to be written."

And

"For the most part, Stone and his actors meet the basic requirements of pulling off this quick-draw portrait of still-evolving history, but one late sequence - of Georges Sr. and Jr. preparing to duke it out in a bare Oval Office - suggests the sort of stylistic imagination and audacious poetic flight that would have given the film some real heft."

Read Variety's full W review right here.

And don’t forget to join me, Dominic Patten, here at Examiner.com tonight around 9PM EST for live online Pop Culture coverage of the second Presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain. Were they Presidential? Were they good TV?