Becoming the Enemy

Paulie from Goodfellas is not believable as the Shah. Sorvino can be a very good actor, but here he is not, and as a heavy man doesn't even resemble the vain athletic dictator.

Neither is the script believable. It tries to remake the Shah into a noble lovable humanitarian father figure when he was a mass murdered who killed thousands and treated his people with contempt while squandering billions on himself.

Khomeini is rightly shown as himself a killer and fanatic. But there's nothing to show why he was so popular, his charisma as a leader. The lives of average Iranians is absent. Instead we only see wealthy elites at the very top.