Surprisingly, not so bad

I went into this film thinking it might be kind of a cringy cop or FBI movie, just in general I guess. Rami is super cool, I've always like him in films. Turns out, it's an interesting if not all that groundbreaking plot, the story moves along well enough and it's quite fun. I can't say for sure if there were any lead FBI peeps or even the president of the United States of America as Native American Indian women or that nonsense. There might have been and it's been a while since I watched The Amateur, but I'll give it a woke-free pass.

Good, not great

It's definitely worth the time to watch. The tic on the wokeness meter is due to the typical scenario of a strong boss woman with morals going against an arrogant white dude. Actually, that's a half tic rounded up. It's tolerable. Most of the best parts of the movie are in the trailer. The swimming pool scene was classic. The final showdown against the bad guy was clever. The acting and directing are top tier.

I didn't notice anything really woke. There's been a CIA female director at the time this was made so I don't see that as woke. This is so
far removed from the book that I don't think comparing it is even worth it. The acting is pretty good but for some reason I just couldn't
buy the actor cast as the main character. I'm not sure what it was, his acting is fine he just didn't seem right in the part. I would say this
is an average movie at best other than the terrible implausible writing. So we have a nervous socially awkward CIA employee whos only job
is in the basement working cryptology and deciphering code. But suddenly he is an expert analyst whos able to put together a complete comprehensive target package on a group of terrorists. How did he know how to accomplish that much less get access to the entire CIA database with out setting off any flags? He spends a short amount of time in crash course training and is shown to be completely inept at pretty much everything other than some skill with IEDs. Than the next minute he's in the field successfully evading a CIA agent trying to stop him and seems to be an explosives and IED expert. He's setting off elaborate timed and remote control traps yet never tells us how he is getting the materials and setting up the traps. There just magically there and go off without a hitch. He seems to be an expert hacker as well and somehow appears to still have full remote access to the entire CIA computer network. He just morphs from inept computer nerd to top tier field operative. The book wasn't perfect and had problems of it's own but at least they had Charlie as an amateur with a lot of luck and help on his side to accomplish his goals. It's not a terrible movie
but it requires some major suspension of disbelief.