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Title: Please DeNiro, give us a break
Review: In case anyone is misinformed, Robert DeNiro is just an anti-American hippie. This so-called tale, or maybe tale is a better description than story, is so far out of touch with history that it is pathetic. Yes, sometimes the CIA can be pretty pathetic, too, but at least their pathos is not contrived, it just happens, humans being human, after all. DeNiro's pathetic film is totally contrived and seems to be directed at making the USA's spy mission somehow evil. What were we (the US) to do during the Second World War and the following Cold War? Close our eyes and pretend that the Soviets and Papa Joe Stalin were a bunch of nice guys not trying to get us. They certainly were trying to get us and if sometimes our spy agencies screwed up, well, as I said above, they were human; and if anyone thinks the Soviets didn't screw up, they need to read up on their history.All in all a pathetic picture, made more pathetic by poor editing and historically inaccurate tale-telling.
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