fake, lame dictator character

I think you can call this one a good movie if a good movie is just another television B film. But this is only a personal opinion; it's not important.
What seemed to be ludicrous in this film is, above all, the Romanian dictator. To be more precise, the way that the character was depicted. We see a charismatic Franco Nero in military uniform, bearded and called Ionescu.
I'm a Romanian myself, but I'm not nationalist, I hate Communists and Ceausescu etc, it's not about this crap. This post is all about the funny way Western moviemakers (that is, some of them) create fake Eastern characters. Why? Maybe because they don't do their homework (that is research); maybe they use only subcultural and superficial cliches; or maybe because it'a just a TV B movie...
Now let's see why Nero's character didn't work:
- the film was made in 1988, when Ceausescu was still the dictator of Romania. That's why the dictator in the movie (also in Sheldon's book, I think) was named not with the real waco's name, but Ionescu - which is as common as Jones in USA and UK.
- Ionescu was wearing a military uniform. Communist dictators don't do that anymore :) It's unnatural and fake.
- Ionescu had a beard. Communist dictator, Romanian or not, with beard? This is as normal as Hitler wearing the Jewish top-of-the-head cap thing (what is it called?) or Saddam Hussein wearing a "I Love NY" T-shirt.
- Nero creates a seductive negative character; Ceausescu and generally Commie bosses were not like that at all...

OK, maybe this post means: "Ceausescu was a piece of s***, not the bearded military playboy in this movie, which means Westerners still knew nothing about what happened here, they only had a very romantic, edulcorated image about life in Commie Romania"... but after all we did it to ourselves. :)