According to IMDB this movie had a $1 million budget and made $48,000 at the box office. That must be close to a record for losing money on a film which actually made it to the theater.
It's a lot better than that, at least if you can get past the lousy sound job (very uneven but often the music/background obscures the dialog), It would be redeemable if it had captions, but it doesn't. Having said that, most of the reviews at IMDB are respectful.
Anyway my wife and I stuck it out. Perhaps our receptivity was enhanced by having been watching the first 23 episodes of Fauda (season1 and part of 2). "Fauda" seems to equate to SNAFU. It's based on an Israeli special ops unit fighting against Hamas and eventually ISIS with a reasonably balanced view of both the Israeli heroes and the Palestinian villains. It describes a complex situation in the West Bank, a complexity which is related to the complex situation of the American-Iraqi relationships in "The Situation".
The Situation was written and produced by Wendell Steavenson, a (female) war correspondent based on experiences in the Iraq war. It was released in 2006, perhaps just as the US was turning against the war, so it should have done well. It really would be worth someone's time and effort to fix the sound.
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