Congressman Charlie Wilson single-handedly brings down the former Soviet Empire in this piece of U.S. propaganda with the message "The USA are the good guys, we were responsible for defeating the Soviets in Afghanistan but couldn't say so at the time due to the Cold War". Military equipment and political allegience is aquired from Israel and Egypt simply by distracting the country's leaders with belly dancers and prostitutes, and when the covert operations budget is noted to have increased from five million to over a billion dollars, the committe members authorising it all have a good chuckle amongst each other. As Russian pilots cackle words worthy of a boy's Commando comic book ("Let the killing begin! ha ha ha"), it's all surface-to-air missiles and apple-pie. This is a review of the cinema/theatre version.