Charlie Wilson's War is a truly dangerous piece of pro-war propaganda from Hollywood.

Chalmers Johnson attempts a serious critical analysis of a film whose pre-release coverage by the New York Times was entitled, Sex! Drugs! (And Maybe a Little War). In it, Richard Berke wrote:

If “Charlie Wilson’s War,” with a budget of $75 million, is a commercial success (*), its creators will have found a winning formula. You can make a movie that is relevant and intelligent — and palatable to a mass audience — if its political pills are sugar-coated, in this case thanks to Mr. Wilson’s high jinks, his sometime romance with a right-wing socialite played by Ms. Roberts and his escapades with a coarse CIA officer played by Mr. Hoffman. But Hollywood has long found it tricky to find the balance between being taken seriously on geopolitics without falling short on what movies are supposed to do: entertain.

Mike Nichols' latest film is "pro-war" in the way that Eli Roth's last two horror films were "anti-backpacking."

(*) So far, the domestic total is at $53M. It will surely break even after it has opened worldwide, but it's not going to be considered a success.

Charlie Wilson's War: An Imperialist Comedy