I kept hearing it was painting US imperialism in a good light. After watching it, I'd say it really doesn't do that. If anything it kinda goes out of its way to ask the audience to really question the whole US interventionism and 'peace making'. The end is still quite lib with the surviving squad using the 'truth' as a bargaining chip that never gets made public. There's certainly some shades of sympathy for Snowden and other whistle blowers, but the film certainly didn't care to make too full-throated of a statement on that.
I was actually surprised how much effort in the narrative was made to keep it from being chud-coddling cape shit. Not quite The Boys level of introspection, but definitely nodding in that direction imo.
I kept hearing it was painting US imperialism in a good light. After watching it, I'd say it really doesn't do that. If anything it kinda goes out of its way to ask the audience to really question the whole US interventionism and 'peace making'. The end is still quite lib with the surviving squad using the 'truth' as a bargaining chip that never gets made public. There's certainly some shades of sympathy for Snowden and other whistle blowers, but the film certainly didn't care to make too full-throated of a statement on that.
I was actually surprised how much effort in the narrative was made to keep it from being chud-coddling cape shit. Not quite The Boys level of introspection, but definitely nodding in that direction imo.