The Pentagon Wars
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Actor: Beau Billingslea, Dominic D. DeNiro, Olympia Dukakis, Sam Anderson, Viola DavisBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-31
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Pentagon Wars
Movie Review: Funny, but not funny like it looks on the cover
Summary: 4 Stars
I find it faintly amusing and more than a bit chilling that this movie is clearly being marketed as a wacky Army satire which has the small advantage of being, y'know, true. The story is about the almost incredibly prolonged and massively costly development of the not-very-good Bradley fighting vehicle. It's not as much of a deathtrap as a Humm-Vee, but it still cost far too much money to develop, and the end result is the product of a series of compromises designed to fit the whims of whichever bunch of generals happened to be responsible for deciding what it should be for at any given time.
The Bradley is in service in Iraq and the best thing that can be said about it is that in the first Gulf War, it destroyed more Iraqi armoured vehicles than the M1A1 Abrams main battle tank - which in turn doesn't say very much for the Abrams. In the current war, it has proven to be vulnerable to guerrilla tactics, such as attacks by individuals armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers. It is not nearly as good as it could have been, and this film is an only lightly fictionalised version of how American soldiers came to be going into battle in an expensive and not very good vehicle. (Compare the Israeli Merkava tank, designed with the emphasis not on lots of groovy features but on crew survivability.)
It's a funny film, with fine work by Cary Elwes and a pre-West Wing Richard Schiff, with also some top-grade scenery chewing by Kelsey Grammar. But it's also depressing. Military incompetence is alive and well, and it's dwelling at the heart of the US military right now. (What else explains the design of the Bradley and also the planning and initial execution of the war in Iraq?)
Summary of The Pentagon Wars
From the director of ' 'Made In America' ' and ' 'The Money Pit' ' comes a hilarious look at one of the most expensive blunders in military history. Over 17 years and almost as many billion dollars have gone into devising the B.F.V. There's only one problem. . . it doesn't work.Running Time: 104 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 026359147227Comedy DVD Video
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