This movie has been hit so hard by US critics, not because the film itself but because they still don't want to believe what the film reveals (Snowden actually) about their own country and establishment.

People tend to behave like and ostrich when they reality is to tough to swallow: If you don't like something, if you close your eyes, keep telling yourself it is not true, you may some day wake up and realize it just was a nightmare.

But I am afraid that America long ago lost the war on terror, the day it surrendered the constitutional rights of its citizens and residents in the name of winning that war. It did exactly what the terrorist had hopped and stepped down to became something asimilable to them.

America no longer holds the moral high ground, it blew it treating its own people as ISIS and al-Qaeda do to theirs.

Moreover, to get to there in the name of safety, it turned its back on what really made America great: the Bill of Rights, its Constitution, and the reasons why it fought for its independence and created the first modern democratic republic. _The empire collapses when its leaders forget the cornerstone on which it was built_.