Was this produced by Michael Moore?

Rating: 7/10 (17 September 2005)

First off, I liked this film. I like Nicholas Cage, and the story was entertaining, even if it is more a morality play than anything else. The reason I ask if it was a Michael Moore production is this:
**MAJOR SPOILER ALERT** the story takes us up to 2001. Prominently featured is a newspaper headline regarding the Supreme Court decision on the Bush/Gore election. The movie deals with real countries and historical events, not with phony countries as often happens in movies involving Africa. At the end of the movie it states, "Based on actual events." Not, "Based on a true story," so it's questionable what exactly they are saying, but it does imply that the story is true. So, toward the end, when Nicholas Cage is in custody, and talking to agent Ethan Hawke, he tells him that he is going to walk free. The reason, he says, is that highly placed people don't want him in jail. Specifically, he says that the president has his fingerprints on his (Cage's) gunrunning actions. The president in 2001, of course, was George W. Bush. So, the movie specifically accuses our current sitting president with being complicit in illegal arms trafficking AND obstruction of justice. And it doesn't even purport to be a "documentary" like Moore's piece of cr*p. So it seems Hollywood has given a "pass" to anyone wanting to accuse GWB.