Posted: Friday, 21 December 2007 10:19AM
Charlie Wilson's War
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Based on a true story, this film gives us the behind-the-scenes deal-making that went into the U.S. government’s covert aid to Afghan soldiers fighting the Soviet Union. The year is 1980 and Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks) is a self-indulgent, good-time Congressman from Texas. Under the hot tubs and strippers, there’s a serious side that leads him into changing the face of world politics. He is joined in his commitment to fight the Soviets by a smart socialite (Julia Roberts) and a feisty CIA agent (a scene-stealing Phillip Seymour Hoffman.) Aaron Sorkin’s script delivers as we become invested in the personalities and their mssion, scenes conveying both the technical details of the Afghan struggle as well as the comic interplay between characters. The problem in Mike Nichols' direction is that there is never a sense of the importance of what is going on, much of the film stays on the surface.
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