How accurate is this movie?

Rating: 7/10 (16 July 2018)

When you look at a production you must always remember there are script writers and a director as well producers involved with the creation of the production.
There are agendas and deadlines, as well, requirements for length, language, legal and other variables to take in to consideration.
Names, places and times are changed. Scripts are written to fit a mold.
While this movie presents the ideal of stopping a Big Brother government from spying on all the people and collecting information to be used at a later time against the public should you do something considered to be a threat to the political and religious nature of the government, it is still a movie.
I thought the casting was very good, the script moved along smoothly. I enjoyed the cinematography. I enjoyed the ending.
However, I do not believe Snowden is a patriot but I do not believe he is a terrorist either. He is a young man who was put in to a position of questioning his job and the desire for his government to spy on their own people.
He had morals and ethics, which is more than I can say for any part of the American government for the last 100 years. He felt what was happening was wrong and that he needed to expose the truth.
I do not believe what he did was wrong, I think he did it for righteous reasons, but he also harmed America and released information which set in motion another moment when America was weakened and put in to a position of international stress.
It's a good movie, but it isn't perfect.