The year 2010 has come and long gone without these events transpiring, and setting it up as a future that never was ensured the movie would quickly render itself outdated, which is only one of many reasons that it was doomed to fail from the outset. The whole conceit of the movie is on that list, as it's utterly ridiculous that these events would occur in reality, and it is so hamfisted that it doesn't even work as satire. I'll confess I'm from the other side of the pond than most viewers and reviewers of the piece, but I appreciate a lot of British television series and movies, with this obviously not counted among them. Putting the special relationship on trial in an intelligent way that explored all of the complexities therein could have been compelling, but the makers of the movie settled for a simplistic version of Bush as the greatest of evil and anyone standing with him the same. It borders on apology for terrorists, as if it was unholy war started by the US that prompted terrorist attacks rather than the reverse, and it paints the problem as Blair being in thrall to Bush, never confronting Britain's past in the region, which preceded US involvement by centuries. It's more straw man argument than movie, and the missed opportunities for something more are reason enough to make this a must-miss piece of political theater and propaganda.
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