This is getting dunked on but I think they’re right in the same way that even anti-war movies end up glorifying war in some way. “A clever shithead that people don’t like” wins a lot of ppl over; if he was painted as clueless and wannabe as he ACTUALLY is, it woulda hit harder.
It was. Jesse Eisenberg portrayed that man with charm and likability that he has never possessed in real life. Propaganda, if you will.