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Before recent rogue foreign asset Orange Puppet, this was a movie casting the government leadership as heavy-handed regarding WMD cover-up and collusion/entrapment of intelligence community being fractured between National Security interests vs propaganda for padded government contracts (Blkwater, Halliburton etc) that could be manifested by embellishment and deception.

In moved Fancy Bear Programme where Tea Party formation used by Putin to slice and dice Americans by brainwashing Americans waving flags and holding England's obsolete scripture upside down so long they created a cartoon version of Rambolina Jazzuzabus.

Intelligently, this solid film lays off who is who in the political arena and is well scripted enough to paint real world effects of Freedom Of The Press ...and what the results of propaganda truly are (real people getting really hurt, especially for doing the right thing and placing country before personal greed).

Government leadership engaged in quid pro quo cover-up deals spiral out of control incrementally, and greed is the most potent drug of all for the doomed souls unfortunately becoming too numerous. To answer Gordon Gecko's errant philosophical speech. That this movie shares many qualities with.

Here the greed is only inferred, to better highlight that our hero sacrificed everything so compromised whistleblowers in the future can hope to not be punished for being honest and moral.

The protagonist FBI agent is well done. Straight forward doing his job, serving as he's been hired to protect National Security. Not a pretty chore but necessary. And important to the plot that he wasn't muddled or mired in typical ways how 'the heavy' is portrayed as an 'oaf cop' or compromised in some corrupt dynamic. Well done Matt.

Then again, hard to like the law enforcement process...lacking the 'due' on topics of National Security...but what if it can stop another 9/11 to limit some privacy? True dilemma.

I would say my takeaway is if we do better cracking down on white collar crime and corruption of lobbyists and K Street and corporate attorneys, then less classified data happens to be hidden to put intelligence community at such risks when exposed.

We also have to do better - all of us - saying "all people of this country or that country 'good' or 'bad'" ... because basically there's a rotten 10-20% of people in most demographic groups everywhere on Earth. And to get your foot in the door to change anything, those corrupt attorneys are who handles the documents to get you paid. Quite a tap dance. Greed is the easier path for those unrestrained by moral and ethical standards.

The handful of moral and ethical attorneys are getting scarce, so it was nice to see Alan Alda in a role that felt authentic and I suspect he didn't have to stretch himself too far... One of the real good guys around I suspect who obviously puts other cast members into a zone of authenticity of character throughout the movie. One of the greats.

This has no big special effects. A gripping script made clear with solid acting performances, direction and edits. Sure some minor criticisms could be made, but gotta give props for tackling this script and resisting turning it into Dirty Harry meets Kill Bill, which neither are as adult and realistic as this quality production.

The cost of these scandals being covered up are manifesting in oil pipelines wars globally. How wealthy is wealthy enough? Why when someone attains a certain amount of wealth and power do they need to lie and engage in sex crimes and fake NDA contracts marriages? Don't they understand we are all onto it and laughing that all that wealth ... and they still have to buy companionship?

This movie gets you thinking about why certain groups need us divided on religious, political and scientific ideologies and trying to tell us we pay taxes so government has to help corporations be successful? It's no longer 'our government' when corporations and corrupt attorneys in the control room. That happened in Germany after WW1 to become WW2. And Putin got a guy to literally push Mein Kampf in plain sight 4 years!

Socialists want government to be Of The People, By The People, For The People...Per Thomas Jefferson, the dude who crafted Our Bill of Rights...so who needed to believe Putin vs Thomas Jefferson?

According to CONsevatives, "Socialism is Fascist Commie stuff, now where's my Social Security and Stimulus Check?!!"

This movie peels back a layer.

A Free Press is the only thing blocking Corporate Fascism from happening again to humanity, but too many on the right thought it was ok to get paid to recite corporate scripts The Orange One pulled from Adolf's pages.

Our government has to care about truth, because it cannot protect us from a foreign asset if the government itself sets the bad example Limbaugh and too many others endangered our intelligence community by peddling KGB GRU Mossad Cambridge Analytica scripts Ol Rupy Murdoch pushed to save The Last Of The Roman Empire England's Royal Monarchy... Orange Menace owned largely abroad since his Atlantic City Casino bankruptcy, we need CIA agents leaking in such National Security Constitutional crisis scenarios, which was for an opposite false flag at the time of this movie being made.

Oath to country within intelligence community is literally life or death. It's actually disappointing that more US Embassy personnel are tapped to serve over political bias and kickbacks... versus loyalty to country.

Senator McCain knew. Scalia knew. Both corrupt, but both warned Orange Menace was a walking, talking lying sellout.

Free Press will be dumping an avalanche of evidence for decades.

Sadly.

This movie only takes a side of 'truth'; something Devin Nunes in the same sentence... leaving 'truth' needing a long shower.

Great movie.

Don't want to spoil the movie, as even the character development is intentionally mysterious for a plot-driven reason.

In the aftermath, you'll think back on how cleverly some of the pieces were put in.

There's a couple of parts it flopped in 'movie ways', like running a mile barefooted in snow will send you to your grave or hospital with certainty if you started out hours in that cold to begin with... would have liked the director to think of a patch, but for continuity of action, these are things that happen.

The ending bothered me at the time, but it was actually clever and yes, it doesn't hand the explanation to you...but that's why it's good. If you watch it without distraction, you'll be thinking about it for a while afterwards.

To me, that is a sign usually of a strong movie.

One of the things that adds to the realness of the story aside from the fantastic scenes is like real life, the well-acted characters all have flaws. Like life is. It was a little frustrating not to have any real heroes in the equation, but cleverly done tidbit is the characters with no redeeming qualities pay the price.

Underrated for whatever reason. Perhaps because some of the actors aren't right wingers, it drags out trolls to slam something they wish they'd made.

It was 2008, and sure nailed the corrupt underbelly of Russian corruption (a government who doesn't care for Russian civilians' civil rights definitely is well portrayed, proven.). Such a shame that Russia wastes their potential by accepting corrupt police state that we here in America should take note of rogue cops run amok under ruse of government oppression; we are a mess in that department, but nothing as horrific as a police state under dictatorship.

Don't watch this if you're going to have distractions, as you'll get more out of it paying attention to details of complexities of each character as they develop.

I will watch it again in a couple of years without interruption because I didn't take my own advice until the movie pulled me away from what I was doing, because it was that good...it deserved full focus like any strong movie does.

Really nice job by all crew and actors. The conditions not an easy task, could have been done without the frigid weather, but those conditions are a character itself in the movie...well done!

Very raw script in terms of language showing depths of violence and bigotry among all players even rogue native American Indian peoples... Granted European & South American invaders give Our Native American Indian Tribal peoples an argument for simply defending their territories. Shame they had no functional central government before Europeans especially from England's Royal Monarchy Imperialism influences missed the opportunity for a more harmonious merger in our history. All Nation's beginnings have raw greed and fear feeding disastrous moments.

This film captures that the mental health problems of just a few always resulting in big wars.

The script and actors pulling off such a high quality effort ON FILM is something that could NOT be done today.

It's a bit plodding and complex, but truly ruthless human behavior that definitely would be how things were for many in rural settings.

Criminals if all skin tones were the biggest problem...no laws to adhere to, mass slaughter of herds for furs because textile fabrics from cotton picking hadn't been established yet nationally. Yes, Union Soldiers probably helped emancipate slaves wearing slave labor uniforms. Appropriately so, given the result, more reasons emancipation was mandatory. Only possible by a noble Central Government.

This film puts some things in historically accurate context in cultural meanness; how true lowlifes mixed with settlers - both Euro & Indian - played out in cruel ways when good tribes/settlers met up with criminal rogues away from the help of any type of government defense.

It definitely wasn't exactly as free as anyone wants to pretend.