Jan
2
2008

Charlie Wilson’s War

When I read that Aaron Sorkin (of The West Wing etc.) had penned the screenplay for this, I was looking forward to a good political satire. I was a bit disappointed with the end result but overall it’s not too bad of a film.

Most of the comedic elements to the film just aren’t funny, barring of course the great Philip Seymour Hoffman as the disillusioned CIA agent who agrees to help out a US senator (Tom Hanks) in arming a group of Afghani freedom fighters to fight the Soviet invasion of ‘79.

Charlie Wilson's War

The main point of the film is the allusion to modern events and foreign policy of the US government and it gets this across well without being too preachy. Worthy of 5 crumbs out of 10.

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