Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies (2015) (Tom Hanks)

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Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

The biggest thing is the way it purposefully makes the main characters out to be pretty daft and inept, while simultaneously sympathisizing with the terrorists. War of the Worlds pretty much did the same thing (the alien tripods being analagous to invading Americans, and Tom Cruise becoming a kind of terrorist), so the two movies together was pretty much like Spielberg contorting the stories around to convey his personal (left-wing) views on the war on terror, and it was pretty much all saying that Americans are evil and terrorists are good.

That's the strangest interpretation of both "Munich" and "War of the Worlds" that I've ever read.

If anything, the alien tripods were the terrorists and Tom Cruise was the resistance, but even that is pushing it. Remember, it was all based on H.G. Wells' novel, which was originally published in serialized form in 1897 and preceded even World War I. There doesn't have to be any politics in a story in which aliens invade and humans resist. What's political about that?

As for "Munich", there were criticisms of the film, but if you don't show the Israelis as 100% right and the terrorists as 100% wrong, there will be criticism. That doesn't mean that Spielberg was taking a political position. It means he was accurately conveying what the protagonist (Avner) felt. I can assure you that Spielberg is a strong supporter of Israel, for better or for worse.