|Is extremely anti-War on Terror to such an extent that it comes across as blatantly anti-American, as it repeats the falsehood that Pentagon officials lied about there being WMDs in Iraq simply so they could gin up a war in the Middle East (completely ignoring that various other intelligence agencies, including even France, a country that didn't even want a War with Iraq, acknowledging that Saddam had WMDs), and even had the main villain, who was modeled after Donald Rumsfeld, sending assassination teams against those in the know about the conspiracy. The film even went as far as to portray Iraqi terrorists as the good guys. The film was also notorious as being Universal Studio's biggest box office bomb as a result.<ref>https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/8/9/the-5-most-destructive-political-ideas-in-matt-damons-movies/3/</ref> | |Is extremely anti-War on Terror to such an extent that it comes across as blatantly anti-American, as it repeats the falsehood that Pentagon officials lied about there being WMDs in Iraq simply so they could gin up a war in the Middle East (completely ignoring that various other intelligence agencies, including even France, a country that didn't even want a War with Iraq, acknowledging that Saddam had WMDs), and even had the main villain, who was modeled after Donald Rumsfeld, sending assassination teams against those in the know about the conspiracy. The film even went as far as to portray Iraqi terrorists as the good guys. The film was also notorious as being Universal Studio's biggest box office bomb as a result.<ref>https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/8/9/the-5-most-destructive-political-ideas-in-matt-damons-movies/3/</ref> |