very dated
How? You do know it's supposed to be dated because the setting is the first Gulf War in the early 90s.
dated when we consider subsequent events.
I didn't mind it first time I watched it but I did find it boring when I tried watching it again a few years later. I find Clooney films to be pretentious and preachy.
It's about the 1990s, and was made in the 1990s, so it's like the 1990s. So what? What else did you expect?