The short answer is No. The longer version - if you a journalist, want to know more about how war journalists risk their lives to bring you stories from conflict-zones or have missed Ben Affleck - perhaps you can give it a go.

Some people clearly have as it ranks No.4 in Netflix's daily Bahrain top movie rankings. The feature is a new one added by Netflix to showcase the movies/TV shows people are watching in a particular country that day.

'The Last Thing He Wanted' is a muddled 1970s-style paranoia thriller set amid the American interventionism of the 1980s. The story is a swirl of shifting allegiances, agendas and motivations in American politics and that landscape.

Directed and co-written by Dee Rees, the movie is an adaptation of Joan Didion’s 1996 novel of the same name. Anne Hathway plays a newspaper reporter Elena McMahon, a war journalist who gets swept up in a story she can't find her way out of. After being pulled off her work regarding US involvement in Central American revolutions, she walks off an unwanted assignment covering the 1984 presidential campaign due to her ailing father (Willem Dafoe).

This is actually where the real story begins as Elena gets ensnared in a gun-running scheme that draws her back to Central America. She falls deeper into a downward spiral as she is pulled between a U.S. government official named Treat Morrison (Ben Affleck) and an operative of uncertain affiliation known as Jones (Edi Gathegi).

Despite it's uncomfortable and unexpected ending, Anne Hathway shines in the performance as she moves away from her sickly sweet persona and looks the part of a war journalist.
“I knew I had this character inside of me and, opening up a little bit, the sweetness thing is something that stood between me and getting parts in the past,” Hathaway said, “where directors meet me and they don’t see the part, they just see this Labrador puppy coming at them. And I just had this moment where I was just like: ‘If not now, when? I need to show who this person is, I need to show what I have.’

In an early scene in the movie, as Hathaway and her companion are running to make a plane that will safely get them out of a war-torn hot spot, the camera breaks away from the two of them to hurtle through a terminal, past a luggage check-in, out a doorway and onto an expanse of tarmac only to catch back up to the pair as they scramble aboard a waiting plane. There is isolation and uncertainty in nearly every frame of the movie. It is also reminiscent of another Affleck movie 'Fargo'.

The ending of the movie is very unsatisfactory as it did not tie up several loose ends in the movie and that to me is annoying. Not that I like all my movies to have an ending that neatly catch all the frayed threads but here I felt that I had invested too much time in some characters and storylines and was disappointed not to know the real motivations for their actions.

Perhaps that is also the reason the movie has been getting bad review after bad review.  So I might perhaps research this a little more and come back with an article that explains the ending.