That Daily Mail "journalist" is utterly despicable and somehow wilfully ignorant of his role. Solid documentary.
Really solid film but the very ending disappointed massively for me. Kind of contradicts everything that came before it.
HOLY. SHIT. LOVE THIS MOVIE. I went into this thing knowing only that it was by "the Hell or High Water guy" and that it was in the 80s on RT. That's it. 10 minutes in I leaned over to my friend and said, "This movie is AWESOME." And guess what? It stayed that way the entire running time. It could have kept on going and going and going. Jeremy Renner, best role. Elizabeth Olsen, fucking spectacular. Hmm, maybe I should rewatch Hurt Locker to say best role, but lemme tell ya they all crush crush crush it. See! This! Movie!!
If I was a patriotic American who thrives on the idea of being the Freeworlds judge, jury and executioners, I would love this. However I am not. The hollow script doesn't even begin to touch on anything remotely close to motivation for Rebel/Terrorists and just paints them as evil doers who must be vanquished by the forces of good. A tired tact reminiscent of 60's propaganda films. At least Homeland is smart about it's blatant racism.
If you are looking for some more enligtened viewing on the topic of US intervenion try;
https://trakt.tv/shows/oliver-stone-s-untold-history-of-the-united-states
https://trakt.tv/shows/hypernormalisation
https://trakt.tv/movies/blood-and-oil-2008
"America FUCK YEAH" the show. Overblown patriotism seen time and time again. Still, it's not a bad show if you can look past all of that, assuming you're not blindly in love with America and its ideals already.
