Tehran—the new John Abraham political action thriller—literally cannot identify the country of Georgia on the map.

The movie also goes out of its way to make its protagonist an apolitical man who somehow annoys the governments of three nations, including his own.

We discuss the film’s muddled messaging, its bizarre third act, and the arrogance with which it thinks it can get away with claiming Scotland is Iran.

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