Starring: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts
Director: Mike Nichols
Like most of the films we have reviewed on our blog, there are a number of things you can take from this film. But if you're objective, you'll see beyond the perspective of Congressman Charlie Wilson, from which this film is presented. What you'll take from this film is how US interventionist foreign policy has failed, with the backdrop being the conflict with the Soviets in Afghanistan.
Whether you are a supporter or critic of US imperialism (oh come on, don't show me that bewildered look!), the film shows Charlie Wilson for the ballsy, don't-fuck-with-me, witty Congressman that he was. But dispositions aside, he was in the minority when he realized there was something terribly wrong with the exit strategy, or lack thereof, of the "proxy" war that the Soviet conflict in Afghanistan really was.
A- for acting/screenplay.
B+ for directing.
A for plot.
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