The treatment doesn't have zing, everything is predictable and there's barely any depth to this telling. The by-the-book plotting is a little too straight-forward to mean much. The British Whistleblower's story of how she uncovered the US' dirty trickery seems rather inconsequential when you look at it in the perspective of the consequences that followed, nevertheless. The U.N. approved the Iraq War, and four years to that day, nearly a million were dead, including thousands of U.S. and British soldiers. So what does that say about the governing bodies and the citizens who vote for them?

A deglamorised Keira Knightley as Gun, is shown in the docket for her 2004 trial and then the narrative flashes back to the fateful day at her job where she gets hold of the incriminating memo. While Gun's 2004 ordeal is revelatory of how the moral compass has turned on its head, the film on it does nothing to lend gravitas to the highlighted moment of consequence. Megan Gill's editing chutzpah and Paul Hepker and Mark Kilian's intriguing score try hard to drum up some suspenseful enthusiasm but Hood's narrative sterility fails to evoke much response!

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