Oliver Stone, well known for movies such as JFK that play on conspiracy theories has taken a different tack with this movie. He has created a more balanced but less watchable and less interesting movie. W. is a character analysis of George W. Bush that leaves the audience to draw any conclusions. Josh Brolin does a wonderful job of portraying George W. Bush and creates perhaps a more revealing personality than Bush himself is able to leave with the audience. Brolin is definitely the best part of the movie. The script used by Stone does not specifically indict the Bush administration as many assumed would be the case. It leaves the audience to make the judgements through the more subtle portrayal of the character created by Brolin. The portrait created is one of a man trying to live up to the family expectations who goes from a hard drinking, hard partying, almost carefree man to one who is completely committed to his own views through the strength he derives from being a born again Christian. You see a man incapable of serious introspection, a man incapable of identifying any mistakes and incapable of changing course. W. is a tragic but not completely unsympathetic figure. The fact that the story has not ended creates an unfinished feeling when the movies stops.