As a westerner, I am truly ashamed of our general interference in the Middle East. However Ben Affleck appears not only unashamed of it but proceeds to glorify it. He takes a serious international conflict and twists it in American favour and profits from it claiming it as based on a true story. Truly self indulgent. I have to say that the film, as a piece of fiction, is gripping and would be very watchable (at a simplistic level), but if you are going to base it on a true story, you have to do that. Not twist the facts, glorify the Americans, and throw the usual Hollywood script cliches in. Okay, maybe all this is Ben Affleck's choice and fair enough if that's what his ego demands of his fame. However, the Oscars? For this glorification of Middle Eastern situation of which we should be thoroughly ashamed?