While I applaud the main theme and purpose of this film, the rejection of torture (by the USA) as a disgusting and inexcusable practice , this film glosses over fundamentalist terrorism and I feel we got an agenda with half the story.
It doesn't seem disputed that the 'Mauritanian' was receiving calls from OBL's satellite phone and was fundamentally radicalised - that he had military training with AQ in Afghanistan over several years while based securely in Germany and studying... In fact, despite the reprehensible knee jerk use of torture by the USA that equally spread presidents from Bush to Obama, it's a message of hope that we even see films like this from the USA. That the US has a free populace that challenges these issues, a legal system that challenges the government and populist press and industry that even makes popular but flawed and partisan movies like this challenging the obvious but conveniently glossing over the glaringly obvious.
It doesn't seem disputed that the 'Mauritanian' was receiving calls from OBL's satellite phone and was fundamentally radicalised - that he had military training with AQ in Afghanistan over several years while based securely in Germany and studying... In fact, despite the reprehensible knee jerk use of torture by the USA that equally spread presidents from Bush to Obama, it's a message of hope that we even see films like this from the USA. That the US has a free populace that challenges these issues, a legal system that challenges the government and populist press and industry that even makes popular but flawed and partisan movies like this challenging the obvious but conveniently glossing over the glaringly obvious.