A Brave Move, or an opportunity bottled?

Rating: 5/10 (11 November 2012)

After watching this film, i can only say i was left extremely conflicted. This film outlines near the beginning the despicable actions of the US and British governments to obtain oil by installing corrupt borderline evil governments and letting them torture, kill and TERRORISE their own people as long as we get oil.
The film then descends into crazy foaming mouthed Iranians (id like to see how America would react if the had liberated themselves from a foreign backed leader) and talk of US hostages, don't even get me started on Guantemno. If these handful of workers from the states are worthy of empathizing for, then what about all the people of Iran who had their freedom stolen by American foreign policy? A film with good actors and good production completely lost the message by turning it into posturing against Iran. Coincidentially, the film also really comes across as a we don't want the Canadians getting the credit ploy. Rather than congratulating themselves, maybe the makers of this film, the real people involved and the American people can reflect on another story in which their country has left a legacy of blood, murder and torture in another foreign nation.
I'll give it a 5 as its shot well and it did have the guts to outline the bad ways in which the west behaved. If you have a conscience you will not come out of this film with the sense of triumph it attempts to install with all the cheesy American back slapping. You will reflect on the plight of the Iranian people and that poor Iranian girl (the actual hero) escaping across the border into Iraq (the irony). The cynic in me lets me believe they only even bothered to show that scene to make it OK for the film to seem triumphant.