He was just waaaay too out of control. A liability like that wouldn't be let anywhere NEAR a covert office because they would fail the psyche evaluation. Not to mention the fact that SOMEONE would have to cover/ clean up the absolute CARNAGE left behind by his reckless MO. I can't see a Covert Ops Organization even WANTING to do that...because, hello...covert, remember? Why send a bull to do a snake's job? How the HELL does someone like Wax end up being employed by the U.S. Government? The simple answer...he WOULDN'T be.
Stupid movie.
"This is appointment television, baby!" - Bruce Campbell (Burn Notice)
Didn't you guys recently employ a similarly out of control liability to run your entire country? Sure, 'W' wasn't as talented as Charlie Wax, nor did he have the same flair or charisma, but ya still voted him in. Twice.
Since then, it's easy enough to imagine almost anything about you guys.
Trying to steer away from the annoying America hate that seems to pop up every time douchebags go near a computer I would say that that was kinda the point of the movie, that it was showing that in real life these badass super-spy's you see in movies all the time would actually be deranged psychopaths and that the other dude was closer to an actual spy. Then again, maybe I'm reading too much into it. Awesome movie though.
Why do you assume that it is "America hate" when someone makes a light-hearted quip about "W"? The man was notoriously incompetent as President, frequently embarrassed himself in public, and was quite frankly a national disgrace. The whole world was appalled by him, and he did massive damage to America's international reputation while in office. The fact that he served two terms was even more shocking and surprising.
Far from being a 'douchebag', I am a literate, educated, and highly reasonable individual with above average intelligence. (Modest too! )
My comment was not aggressive in nature, and certainly not hate-filled. I happen to love America, despite its many, many flaws. Because I am not American myself, I am perhaps better placed to view your country objectively, rather than through a lifetime's filter of local media spin, flag-waving, and patriotic indoctrination.
All that aside, I agree with the rest of your post to a certain extent. Any 'badass super-spy' could conceivably be deranged, though personally I suspect that most people operating in the real-world intelligence community are not badass super-spies, and are far more likely to be boringly 'normal' - at least on the surface. Even the ones who have to kick ass probably do it with a lot less noise and fuss than is depicted in movies. But then, their primary objective isn't to be entertaining.
Technically the Government never officially backed him/them. He worked for them, but they never stepped in to get him through customs at the airport, whereas if the government said ya he's with us, let him through we could've skipped that scene.
Everything about how they communicated when reporting or receiving orders was done through cloak and dagger methods. Wax was more or less like Ethan Hunt in that if he was captured, the Government would deny any involvement.