consistency be perhaps this movie it big problem . the movie start of a a fast and stylish and just plain fun political satire but in it second halve the movie get more serious of tone and in an almost oliver stone kind of way . it of course also a very serious subject but i would say that the movie would have be way well and also more effective if it have be completely do in the same style a the first halve of the movie get shoot in . for a biography and a movie concern the subject of this movie and the movie be also quite short with it mere 102 minute of run time . the movie because of this feel like it isn not tell the whole story . of course the follow up of the event after the soviet occupation of afghanistan get hint at in the movie but the movie doesn not go deeply into it and it doesn not explain much about it and which feel like a cheap way to just glorify charlie wilson and without show the other side of the medal . also the actual event in the movie itself get rather simplify and even though the story still get told ( needlessly ) complex at time . yes and the movie would just have be way well if it be not try to be so serious at time and overall more light with it style and atmosphere . the movie should have be for instance more like wag the dog and that achieve to find a right combination of satire and sensitive political issue . because of this incoherent style and way of storytelling and the acting performance be also mixed . when tom hank be play his character more playfully and in a more comical kind of way he just excellent . but this just make it sort of hard to take his character serious in the more serious and sensitive or shock moment of the movie . philip seymour hoffman be always excellent though and a he be in any movie that he play in . he also receive an oscar nomination for his role in this movie . most of the other actor just seem to walk around in this movie and just to be in the movie . this go mostly for julia robert and whose character i find just too mysterious to seem to have a clear enough purpose for the movie . she make a redundant impression on me and be therefor also really forgettable in this movie . it not that the movie be a bad watch and it actually be quite good and also enjoyable but if the movie would have dare to be a bit more edgier the movie would have be a good and foremost also more effective one at what it try to obviously achieve . positive .