Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

Early 1980s. Charlie Wilson is a relatively unimportant and unproductive Texas congressman. He does have one advantage - he is on two important committees, covering foreign and military policy. He learns of the situation in Afghanistan and how the Russians are treating the Afghanis and is determined to help, through providing the Mujahideen with weapons. This sets in motion an unlikely sequence of deals and alliances. Excellent movie. Covers an important series of events in world history, the short-term consequences of which were positive, the long term less so. Does so in very light, funny fashion. This highlights the farcicalness of some of the events, and helps the story move along. It would have been a very dry movie if it was entirely serious.Despite the non-seriousness of much of the movie, has a very powerful and profound final message.Great acting by Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and, especially, Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Aaron Sorkin has had back to back big screen hits with 'The Social Network', 'Moneyball' and 'Steve Jobs' but here is his earlier effort.It boasts a big name cast (including the much missed Philip Seymour Hoffman) and with Sorkin penning the script it should be a good film, right? Wrong! This film is Sorkin very much in his comfort zone. The world of politics. Lots of people walking around, being important, spouting write-me-down one liners.But all this hides the fact that the characters aren't that likable, the story isn't the great and lacks all of the fizz and sparkle that makes Sorkin's other (more successful work!) like 'The West Wing' accessible for people who don't care about politics.I find Sorkin to be hit and miss. Guess which column this gets filed in?

Brzezinski admitted that the US started the war BEFORE the Soviets invaded and that it was a trap for them. The CIA/ISI was waiting for them even before they invaded. This movie portrays it as if some congressman came there in the 80s and he say suffering and then decided to act, with the usual fake made up grotesque stories of Russian barbarism to justify using Afghans as a pawn in a geo-political war. The same head chopping fanatics they used in Afghanistan are know in Syria, the US has a bad habit of exporting terrorism around the world with its shady Gulf/Turkish allies. Then you have the Stingers, which are useless missiles. The Russians lost less aircraft in Afghanistan than in training back in the USSR, although the Russian counter part, the Igla, has pretty much taken out the entire Ukrainian air force, in yet another country the US has unleashed war on with covert action. Also the lie that Afghanistan war is what ended Communism and the USSR, the KGB was training their high level agents in the 1970s for the fall of the USSR, it was all planned by Globalist forces, Gorbachev was appointed successor of Brezhnev if you can believe it, of course the top job went to a few elder politburo members like Andropov before Gorby got the job. The Central Banking elite planned not only the rise of communism but its fall, what they couldn't predict is a young Nationalistic officer of the KGB who played them at their game, and then turned the tables of those very elite, he is the President of Russia today, and knows the US's dirty wars in Libya, Syria, Egypt, Chechnya, Dagestan, Yugoslavia, China, Ukraine, Georgia, Latin America, and many other nations have killed millions, and in Syria he is drawing a line in the sand and saying enough is enough, and starting to kill the US's latest "freedom fighters", and that is ISIS. It is sick the amount of lies and jingoism spread to naive Americans through Hollywood, but alas, just look at who runs it financially. Today Communism lives on, but not in Russia. It lives on in the Trotskyist Neo-Bolshevik Neo-Cons who run US foreign policy. It lives on with the invasion of Europe with terrorist GLADIO B armies called migrants, despite the vast majority being military aged men, most of them not even fleeing from Syria, and the ones that are, many are fleeing from the brave Kurds or Syrian Army, the US has to protect its death squad army at all costs.

so we have an all star academy award winning cast tom hanks Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman with an outrageous true story of a congressman who loves a good time drinking and taking drugs as well as his love of womanizing he loves getting into problems that is not his group of secretary's are all women two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees A puffy Tom Hanks tells us one way or another that things can be manipulated with semi pure intentions but without weighing the consequences and Julia Roberts in a blond southern hairdo reminds us of the powers harbored in the sidelines. The subject is serious but the treatment is light, intelligent but light. Philip Seymour Hoffman, as the invisible middle man, steals every scene he is in Julia Roberts has a role like a cameo popping in and out as she plays a reporter who helps Charlie see where his money can go the story is fast and witty but in a casual way this story is about one powerful American man that can get funding to help the fighter in Afghanistan against Russia But Charlie, undeterred, engineered a lethal body blow that weakened the communist empire. Without Charlie, history would be hugely and sadly different in the 1980s his help from . However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Houston Socialite Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gustav "Gust" Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union so with covert way to fund the war Charlie and gust go out of there way to find weapons to help from the C.I.A what a fun charming and entertaining film from mike Nichols