HAMILTON: IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION is a wonderful example of the sort of weird conspiracy-mongering that afflicts some left- wingers. The plot sees a Swedish secret agent infiltrate a group of Russian arms dealers to find out how they got their hands on Swedish weapons. This allows for the wonderful sight of a Swede trying to blend into the Middle East. The conspiracy, once revealed, goes like this: the CIA hire a PMC (based in Texas, so they must be evil) to kidnap a Swedish scientist and his artillery piece, so that they can blow up the house of an East African imam (with his family -- gotta have that collateral damage) and blame it on al-Shabbab. This will allow the CIA to start a new war, which will keep both them and the PMC happily employed for many years. Luckily our Swedish spook (who murders his own girlfriend by accident - !!! - because of course all soldiers are killing machines) teams up with his buddies in the PLO (who are, regardless of your opinions on Israel/Palestine, still terrorists) to stop them. Needless to say, this is not how the world works. Even as a film this is a failure because, a few nice still images of Stockholm at night and some cool Swedish military boats aside, everything is slow and stilted; the action scenes in particular are horribly edited and utterly unbelievable.
