Good story, slow, but well done and balanced 8/10

Rating: Null/10 (16 September 2016)

First, the reason I gave this movie an 8 instead of higher is that it was so slow, and it left out a lot of information and ideas from the movie this was taken from, "Citizen 4".
I am not a fan of Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the least, but this movie was done in Snowden mode so that I hardly knew JGL was in it, so I'd say he did a bang-up professional job.
The movie does a good job of giving people the idea of what it is like to work in a secure environment, and what kind of people there are there, except the people would most likely be more acerbic and cynical, insulting and joking about killing people ... most of them.
I liked that they also gave the other side's point of view when Snowden and his controller were duck hunting and the fact this is war come up, and how secrets are absolutely everything in war. War is absolutely inhuman as has been floated by movies about Enigma and how when the decrypted it they mostly could not use the encryption for fear of letting the enemy know their codes had been broken.
Nothing, no movie, including this one has every done a serviceable job explaining why the world system has to be based on war, nor why there are not continuous efforts to work towards peace. The whole opaque system is what Snowden is against I believe.
As a movie to get people thinking, and maybe fortify them with motivation to watch the full length of "Citizen 4" this movie is one of the few movies made in years that has any use other than simply mind-numbing entertainment, so for that I'd like to give it a 10/10 ... it just simply fails at that ambition even though it was superbly well done.
Thanks Oliver Stone, and I hope you continue making political movies and documentaries.