For a great deal of its relatively brief running time, this is smashing entertainment. Two vaguely amoral do-gooders do their part to fight Commies in a secret hot war during a cold one%u2026you know, the one that installed the Taliban in Afghanistan and turned it into a place armed to the teeth and crazy pissed at us. Then Sorkin and Nich Charlie Wilson’s War dvd Its too easy a movie not to like it, as a diversion rather than a serious work of art, perhaps. Philip Seymour Hoffman provides a wonderful comic foil as the straight-talking CIA operative who helps Wilson in his covert dealings with the Afghan rebels. Charlie Wilsons War tells its tale briskly, almost merrily. This is not a sober history lesson, but a political comedy laced with sex party girls in limos, strippers in hot tubs, booze, and even good old-fashioned cocaine. One of the years very best films.
For a great deal of its relatively brief running
April 23rd, 2008 | General, Arts, Entertainment, Recreation, Retail