I feel the need to write this review as quick as possible because the more time that passes, that less I have to think about the movie. This is just a really generic tale that tells most of us nothing we haven’t heard before yet presents everything in this, “omg, did you hear?” kind of way. Even the poster is overly sensational – “What, you think we could make this up?!” Like, wow – the US kinda-sorta funded the current hash in the Middle East; a selfish senator saw a skinny orphan and had a change of heart; this is not news to me. I think the most succinct thing I can say of this movie is how about half an hour in I was saying to myself, “so, it’s not Catch-22 ...” ... I didn’t even like Catch-22 as a movie, lol, I much preferred it on stage. With Mike Nichols behind it, this movie should’ve been so much more scathing, even blatant, about what it’s saying; that there’s been even a whiff of Oscar buzz about it is laughable. The Eighties production design, the hair and makeup, are disastrous. It’s about the most epitomous of last year’s glossy but worthless movies I’ve yet seen.

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