It's now streaming on Max. I thought it was generally very good, if a little too artsy fartsy at times. Would anybody really still prefer a black and white film camera over a color electronic one?
Any political advocacy in the film is subtle and not clearly connected to current times. A Gen X President is serving a third term. But Reagan talked about wanting a third term at least as much as Trump. And, of course, it was FDR who broke Washington's two term tradition, leading to the constitutional amendment. Texas and California unite to resist it when the Constitution is in fact violated. Hopefully that faith, that left and right will put aside differences to keep the republic, is well placed.
You could say it's a drama-to-action crossover. Action seems to be the go to genre for aging male actors. Maybe this is the start of it being the same for aging actresses.
Overall I thought it was good. The central message clearly was supposed to be that Civil War is never a good thing. It did a pretty good job not beating you over the head with the fact that the "good guys" were committing war crimes in the process. Although by the end it's pretty clear the sitting President is in the wrong, the rebels aren't exactly painted as White Knights. And of course there was some interesting commentary on war zone reporting, with Jessie casually stepping over her hero's dead body to get her shot in the end.