Wasted Opportunity

Rating: 3/10 (7 January 2007)

What a missed opportunity to educate the world and especially Americans about the founding of the CIA and issues surrounding its operations, or into the psychology of one its early directors, for that matter! Instead we are offered nearly three hours of an inexpressive Wilson who gives us no clues as to what his own struggles are (although we can imagine them from the context), and apart from some details about the Bay of Pigs fiasco, we get only vague references to illegal Latin American CIA involvement and Cold War spying. Syriana did this important educative work much, much better and with much more entertainment value.