Thandie Newton plays Condoleezza Rice as a birdlike twit; Jeffrey Wright gives Colin Powell the compromised dignity of a man who realizes — too late — that he has cast his lot with thieves; Richard Dreyfuss» smirking Cheney is a cold hearted schemer who
loves only oil; and nerdy Toby Jones enacts Karl Rove as a perverse policy
wonk who gets a kick out of his Machiavellian brainstorms.