archer191273
Sadly this is an educational and extremely entertaining movie. Some people say that it is propaganda and that it bias to the Americans war effort in Afghanistan. Obviously they didn't have the brains to watch this movie all the way through. It shows how the USA clearly shot itself in the foot by arming the mujahideen and testing it's weapons against the Soviet army only to leave them cold in a war torn country with no education and a future the would see them attack the USA in the most terrifying fashion in modern history.
The Soviet army invades Afghanistan in order to bring in a communist state and is engaged in a war with the mujahideen displacing many of the citizens of this country making them refugees.
Charlie Wilson, a US senator is bought to the attention of this situation and decides that he must convince the US government to help dislodge the Soviets through arming the insurgents. Of course the US government is more than happy to try an array of its weapons without creating an international incident.
This is an very well made and educational movie that made me sad for the Afghans and quite angry at the US government for the lack of care following this war but i sympathise with Charlie Wilson who had a full heart during and after the conflict but was powerless to help Afghanistan recover. A must see for the younger generation especially. I fpund it a very entertaining piece of cinema. It could of paid more attention to detail but it would of made this flick too ling.
thenekassyni
This is a great movie telling of the behind the scenes of what US did to end the Russian invasions in the Middle East. 97% of the movie covers the steps leading up to the end of the invasion. The remaining 3% only mentions the terrible, terrible decisions the US and the Middle East countries did post aftermath. This is the part that most do not comprehend because they severely lack the knowledge to fully understand the implications this had on everyone, and I mean everyone even today.If you're one of the later watchers that doesn't know their history then you can't appreciate the movie in its entirety nor the subtle cries it makes. I would highly to either read up on the wars before watching it or doing that afterwards and watch it again.I make the above comment because although Charlie did do a great thing to end the invasions the US decisions afterwards essentially created what we have today. The lack of support allowed for the increase chaos over the decades to build to the horrors the world is seeing today.Do your research you'll enjoy and hate the movie a lot more.
Python Hyena
Charlie Wilson's War (2007): Dir: Mike Nichols / Cast: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Emily Blunt: Provocative drama about one man's journey into overthrowing the Soviet Union. Congressman Charlie Wilson embarks on a quest to send arms to Afghanistan whom are at war with the Soviets. Attitude and placement of humour are off balance but director Mike Nichols advocates a strong point of view. He also presents Wilson's flaws verses his accomplishments. Nichols is an accomplished director with such titles as The Graduate and The Birdcage. Tom Hanks is superb as Wilson who holds his own under the spotlight of the media. Julia Roberts plays Joanne Herring whom establishes his contacts. What really works here is how the screenplay doesn't play off a romantic fling and presents these individuals as people. Strong supporting work by Philip Seymour Hoffman who steals scenes as a foul CIA agent. Amy Adams also steals moments as Wilson's administrative assistant. Other roles are not quite as broad, and Emily Blunt is featured amongst actors who have had more challenging roles. What is interesting is that she holds strong even in the company of such famous leads. The film is well made, ranking as one of Nichols's best efforts. Interesting film about the defeat of the Soviet Union through one man's dealings. Score: 8 ½ / 10
lordfinese
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.
