Anyone who denies the liberal slant is either stupid or dishonest.

Exactly what is liberal about this movie? Where was the criticism of the United States Military in Iraq? The subject of criticism was the fictional private military company making profit off of war, which wasn't even the real antagonist in the end. It was the senator who was going after the company.

So.. when you get off your crazy soapbox, why don't you actually watch the film or any film instead of going all Glenn Beck on us and base your opinions and theories on actual facts instead of half-truths and assumptions. It makes you sound like an idiot.

When you say "Caan" you mean James Caan :D?
You totally overestimate the skills and political interest of script writers.
It's a pity you join the choir in this paranoid "liberal hollywood" hatred.
You should start making your own opinion instead of just trying to find a simple paradigm that makes your life easy.
In terms of script writing :
Anything that might sell well will be made and that's it.
You had the films where white guys shot natives, you had the movies about mobsters, you had the movies about cold war but really there is one thing you have to understand:
There is 3 scripts in Hollywood, and they do them over and over again, just in a slightly different way adapted to the current era.
In terms of your anti-war blabla story, well that's a sideshow that's just made to have the necessary frame that the main plot can be acted out in.
Main plot is Russel Crowe in a big conspiracy trying to find the truth, not knowing who's you friend and so on.
Actually that plot really was lacking substance if you ask me, the movie was more a one man Russel Crowe show.
The movie could also be about a woman who sales organic vegetables at the farmer's market who allegedly gets killed by the organic lobby cartel but how catchy would that be really?
The outcome really is totally opposed to what you state it were.
You actually said it right, but you're making the wrong conclusion.
And I really wonder how that could be since it's so obvious...
Despite the final plot twist is only in the last 5 minutes it does in fact turn upside down the whole conspiracy story of mercenaries being the bad guys doing anything to keep their multi billion business going.
In the end just as you say it's the one bad guy, and no conspiracy whatsoever.
So in consequence the end were really pretty disappointing one for any liberal, if you found a liberal who finds movies and their stories as important as you obviously do.

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Whenever I read people whining about "liberal slants" in a movie that's about corrupt contractors, government officials, programs, torture, etc., I think to myself, "so wait, does that mean you support the stuff they're exposing?"

This was clearly a metaphor for Blackwater. The things mentioned in the movie about "PointCorp" are 100% true regarding Blackwater. They DO indeed kill whoever they want. They DO kill US soliders and undermine the military. They DID go around New Orleans after Katrina "policing" the streets. They DO get billions in funding from the US gov't. They DO have what basically amounts to their own personal mini-crusade against Muslims. Their founder, Eric Prince, is a known radical Christian and criminal. Another thing they do not mentione in the movie: child prostitution.

So, what exactly is the whining about here? That they're exposing this stuff and it stings because it's all true? Boo hoo. How about directing your venom at the actual criminals? Unless you actually support them...

2. It is career suicide to be a Conservative in Hollywood--even if you can find a financier, you would be shunned by your peers.

The idea that being conservative in Hollywood is career suicide is a myth. Look at Clint Eastwood...John Wayne...Glenn Ford...Charlton Heston. I know what you are thinking: three of those four are dead. You are, in fact, right. So, let's continue with people who are alive who are conservative and are actively employed in Hollywood right now: Sylvester Stallone, Kelsey Grammar, Patricia Heaton, Robert Duvall, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vince Vaughn (who, ironically, wrote and starred in the number one film at the box-office this weekend), and Jon Voight.

Granted, there are more Hollywood Democrats and they are more famous (I can't help it that, in the new millenium, the most talented thespians are also liberal), but I would hardly call conservatism in Hollywood a career killer. In response to those who will say that the aforementioned individuals must keep their political beliefs secret, a simple Google search will turn up their political beliefs, statements made by them supporting those beliefs, and, for some, entire voting records (provided by them, of course).


Chris of The Cinema View
Movie Reviews at www.thecinemaview.blogspot.com

Absolutely correct. I'm sorry I didn't check the board before I rented this atrocious piece of cinematic crap, I would have never wasted my life on it. Total MSNBC propaganda *beep*

And to last poster, you're saying this was a documentary? Everything really did happen? Blackwater assassinates ppl on US soil? They regularly get their employees to kill in order to change public policy? Blackmail politicians? You sir, are simply a shill. A poor one at that.

There's a place for documentaries, and private contractors have committed many crimes and stolen billions, but when fiction masquerades as reality completely misrepresenting the truth, it is propaganda, here it is leftist anti-military, anti-conservative bilge.

The semi-final scene the hitman puts on his US Army uniform to... What? Get shot by cops and give a gay little indignant speech? Or was it the pinko producers just wanting to see a man in uniform get shot? The lefties really thought they were socking it to us supporters of the anti-islamo-terror crusade. "Your own military is insane and will kill you". There was ZERO point to the entire film besides trashing right-wing politicians, with LAME AS ALL HELL dialogue written by demagogues, trashing soldiers who decide to get paid true value for risking their lives working for contractors, and the private security system which is not entirely corrupt, though partially.

Pathetic, Hollywood, pathetic; stick to aiding child-rapists avoid punishment. Russell you have lost my respect bud.

Ah...another thread creator who doesn't get enough ass so he has to come on IMDB to write about politics LOL ....

If these movies suck then don't watch it LOL...fken fgt

-Spoilers are for the weak

Honestly, I thought this movie was anti-liberal and didn't even know it. Just look at the "twist" ending. It was the liberal politian that was the real "bad guy" and not the military contractor.