W., directed by Oliver Stone and starring Josh Brolin, James Cromwell, and Richard Dreyfus, is a movie that will leave you dumbfounded. Not for the fact that we've elected the worst president ever to office not once, but twice, but because you'll be left wondering why you ever went to see it in the first place.

First off, there isn't much new material in the movie. We know about the DUI, the fact that there were never WMDs in Iraq and it was all a scheme, the fact that Bush redux was in a frat at Yale. We learn very little from the movie, even if you have no great knowledge of our president.

What confounds me even more is the fact that this movie was made before George W. Bush has even finished his second term, which makes it almost useless as a historical piece. There is absolutely no mention in the movie of the past 4 years of his presidency, of the presidential races with Kerry or Gore. Instead the movie cuts in and out of the pre-presidency and first-term presidency eras of George W. Bush's life.

Perhaps a better title for the movie would have been "Bush," since there seems to be more time devoted to Bush senior's political life than junior's. While I understand the need to lay the foundation for the rest of his life, the movie seems to revolve around the distant past, and does so by jumping back and forth through time, sometimes giving you cues into what year you've leapt, and sometimes leaving it up to you to figure out for yourself.

The comedy in the film falls flat right out of the gate. The jokes are poorly-timed, in such convoluted humor, or just plain bad. The only highlight from the movie may be the possible history lesson and the instilling of the fact that we made the wrong decision, but who needs to waste $10 and two and a half hours to learn that?