Charlie Wilson's War @ richardeward.com

Charlie Wilson's War
starring Tom Hanks, Amy Adams, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Terry Bozeman
directed by Mike Nichols

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• distortion
  good acting and a funy story are used to rewrite history. sad and dangerous. the US was the first in Afghanistan, before the Russians. The Russians were asked by the Afghan government to help them stop the civl war. the Afghan government who was asking the Russians for help were another three years in power after the Russians left Afghanistan. After this, a real messy civil war started (no time for building schools), and then the Taliban took over. That's the true story, but we might just forget this with... more info

• Hollywood gets it wrong
  The movie is at times enjoyable and well acted. Okay.
  Just some background here--According to former Secretary of State Robert Gates in his book _From the Shadows_ the CIA began giving aid to Islamic fighters in Afghanistan several months before the Soviet invasion. Former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter Zbignew Brzezinski is on public record stating that Carter signed an order on July 3, 1979 to give aid to the mujahadeen. Brzezinski informed Carter in a memo on the same day that... more info

• How an east Texas congressman made Afghanistan safe for the Taliban
  BEWARE SPOILERS!! (and pompous displays of semi-relevant erudition)
  Director Mike Nichols is a past master of women's point of view films that go beyond the narrow confines of the "chick flick." Silkwood (1983); Heartburn (1986); Working Girl (1988); and the very fine Postcards from the Edge (1990) come to mind. His first feature was an adaptation of Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor back in 1966. He followed the next year with the... more info

• Coherence Left on the Cutting Room Floor?
  I'm giving this film three stars only because the people I watched it with were amused by it. Otherwise I'd go lower. It looked to me like a botched job, the sort of film where the script writer, the director, and the producers couldn't get on the same page and so released a compromised product that satisfied nobody. It's odd to read the other reviews here on ammy; many of them grind political axes, but the radical right-wingers accuse the film of being leftist propaganda, while the liberals accuse it of... more info

Similar Products: