insipidio Tom Hanks was a good version of himself, Julia Roberts showed her usual thin acting, but PSH was outstanding. Totally believable, PSH nailed this , as usual.I was just out of college when this all happened and was fairly unaware. What events are going on right now that I am unaware of and will find out about in a movie, in the future?Fast moving, not too heavy-handed in moviesplaning what the war was about, who the players were, what the interest were.Wish PSH was still with us.

alek-sakharov That's how can one "create" history... It's a pity how can one of my favorite actors became a liar. I live in Russia, not in the US. I don't know how US politics act, how they speak, what they like & where they sleep. I can't say that such a man as Charly Wilson can't be shown as in this movie. But I know much more about War in Afganistan & about Soviets. And I know, WHAT was raised by such men as Charlie Wilson. So when Tom Hanks show us some poor little Afgan rebels & cruel ugly soviet soldiers I want to ask Tom: Are You Crasy? Yes, you may be proud, that The Soviet Union lost that war due to US influence, than you may be proud, that The Soviet Union crashed due to this lost, e.t.c. BUT! You may not show that "Black" is "White". You should show that terrorism in this region is raised on US money & until now no one can stop it. And that's the truth about this war - the CHAOS in the Middle East was created by such men as Charlie Wilson. These men are Criminals and should be judged, because too many people were killed, too many cities were destroyed... In 1988 I saw veterans of this war without legs & arms - they picked up from the ground toys, that where filled with explosives by Charly Wilson's "rebels", they were trying to help people & got fire in there backs, because Charly Wilson gave money to support bandits... And what we see in this film? Soviet soldiers, as terrorists, put explosives into toys and laugh...& throw this toys to Afgan Children... And then, WOW! Good rebels kill bad Russian soldiers!!! And people all around the world should think that it's true... And nothing about cutting off heads, teaching children to kill, making drugs, violence against women - ALL THE THINGS the Soviets tried to protect people from. Maybe You don't know, but for Russian soldiers it was an international duty - to protect people in friendly country. And they really tried to do it. Well, You may think that Russians drink vodka all day long, dance with bears & eat ice on breakfast, then this film is for You. So, on my opinion, this film is only propaganda. God, save the USA!

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.

g-bodyl Charlie Wilson's War is based off true events which led to the downfall of the Soviet Union and perhaps the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan. But instead of making the film a complete political drama, I liked the boldness of the filmmakers by changing the film to more of a political satire. The movie was often funny and it consists of witty, explosive dialogue tanks to the genius writing of Aaron Sorkin. However, I feel that the movie is just way too talkative and the narrative tends to drag on at points.Mike Nichol's film is about a U.S Representative named Charlie Wilson who has been investigated for his party habits. But he pulls his act together by befriending a CIA man in charge of the happenings between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan named Gus. Together along with the help of a rich romantic interest of Charlie, Joanne Herring, they work together to participate in the downfall of the Soviet Union.The acting is really good, as one could expect with this sort of cast. It's weird to see Tom Hanks play a party person, but he pulls it off very well. Julia Roberts is excellent as his cold, rich love interest. Philip Seymour Hoffman, as always, is a great pleasure to watch. Finally, Amy Adams is magnificent as Charlie's assistant, always eager to live up to Charlie.Overall, Charlie Wilson's War is an engaging political satire about the events surrounding the Soviet Union's defeat and it shows how this was truly the beginning of the long drawn-out affair between the Taliban and the United States which would culminate during the 9/11 attacks. But it was funny and the jokes are spot on. The script is unusually clever and it was well-directed by a very well-respected director. Other than some blandness at times, this was a good film. I rate this film 8/10.