Great movie, if it was meant to be pure fiction...

Rating: 2/10 (24 February 2013)

But this movie is supposed to be a semi-accurate portrayal of a true story. And it wasn't semi-accurate at all! The movie takes so many liberties in making monsters out of heroes, and the other way around, that I have to judge this effort as being wildly irresponsible, and not at all fair. If Ben Affleck wanted something more exciting than the real life story, that took place in that place, in that era, he should've found a good historical fiction novel fitting the bill. Or, he could've written such a purely fictional story himself. I'm not trying to show a huge level of disrespect here - I admire most of the people involved with this for doing great work with other movies. I just think this one was a very bad idea.