If you haven’t seen the movie, this email will be as pointless as the movie itself:

Jonah –
Having just watched the movie myself, I can attest to its lack of merit and the totally nonsensical ending. I couldn’t figure out who it was that was “arresting” the dictator character. The UNPD? I was actually laughing out loud when Sean Penn pulled the “your partner is in the other room singing like a bird, so you’d better start talking” routine. I wonder if the UNPD would also use “good cop, bad cop.” Also, I have to wonder how it was that nobody charged Nicole Kidman, who had no diplomatic immunity, for anything, despite the fact that she held the leader of a sovereign country hostage at gunpoint!
I wonder if you watched the alternate ending provided on the DVD. In the other ending, the dictator has a sudden change of conscience and reads the list of people who have been killed under his regime in front of the General Council. This is beyond ridiculous. Does Pollack actually believe that a murderous dictator (with diplomatic immunity) would get up in front of the world and confess his crimes? What are we meant to take away from such an ending? Murderous African strongmen are actually idealists at heart who just happened to stray a little bit from the right path?
What scares me is that I think some people actually believe cr*p like this could happen. They like to call themselves the “reality-based community,” which is always good for a chuckle.