Writer Aaron Sorkin knows how to make smart sexy. One might say he brought sexy smart back. Then again, one might not. Either way, his career has shown this sexiness comes with diminishing returns. He started off great ("A Few Good Men"), and then got better (season one of "The West Wing"), and then was just great again (season two of "The West Wing"), then was pretty good (season three), then just good (season four), and then not so good ("Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"). So coming into this movie, one expects it to be as sexy as the liner notes to Madonna's new CD, "Hard Candy." (If you haven't seen the liner notes, let me just say this: they're not that sexy.)
But "Charlie Wilson's War" turns out to be pretty good, on par with season three of "The West Wing." I have to say, though, I have no idea how it was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Comedy or Musical. Nobody sings, and it's not funny. I liked it because it showed an overlooked part of history and, unlike most movies, this one actually has a thesis: it was a good idea to give money to the muj to defeat the Soviets, but the US went wrong by not building schools and helping them out after the Soviets left.
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