just watched this tripe on sundance channel

wow. this is a really bad movie. the fact that redfored read this screenplay and was interested enough to act in it and direct it really shows that he is not that smart, not very clever, and that he is basically a sell out war justifier. when you watch this film in 2012, looking back 5 years onto 2007 when george bush was still the president, and then you look at the montage of all the pictures that meryl streep is looking at of tom cruise's senator character with dick cheney, condoleeza rice, donald rumsfeld et al, and you realize that the whole purpose of the film is to justify these genocidal wars for profit AND REDFORD COSIGNS by making this movie- which is nothing more than a shifty prevaricartion and ultimately, a justification for these wars OF terror. i wont spoil it, but the ending was pathetic on many levels, most of all the pathetic protest of the sell out media stooge played by meryl streep. this movie is nothing more than a neo-liberal excuse for imperialism. the fact that redford buys into this garbage is not surprising, but when you confront it face to face its undeniable.redford went in my book from being an overly pretentious, but sufferable leather faced pretty boy to a bufoonish and clownish dunce and stooge for the war industries. people who aree impressed by english accents will think this film is smart, well written, well acted, and filled with complexity. PS the scenes with streep and cruise were more like a wry, unconvincing deappan comedy routine: wtf was up with that?