War, Inc. [Blu-ray]
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Movie Reviews of War, Inc. [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: Not for the car crash movie buff...
Summary: 5 Stars
War, Inc. shows a strange and not-too-unimaginable future that resembles the absurdity of Brazil with modernized sensibilities. Irrationality abounds, but most of it is a little too close to reality, especially the corporate restructuring of a war-torn country and the overreaching powers of a vice president. John Cusack updates his assassin-for-hire role from Grosse Pointe Blank with another brilliantly-nuanced performance that only he could pull off. Joan Cusack does her best wide-eyed-crazy-cog-in-the-machine, and Hillary Duff is a surprise wonder. Marisa Tomei plays a jaded reporter to the hilt. Throughout the cynicism of this heavy satire, truth about politics and relationships is laid bare and vital. If you don't get it, you probably can't.Movie Review: Funny in a different way
Summary: 4 Stars
This is not so much a laugh out loud movie as it is a smirk and giggle movie. It is thoroughly entertaining if you accept it for what it is, a parody or satire. I always like John Cusak as a hit man for some reason, Hillary Duff making fun of popstars is somehow fitting and for the first time, I found myself wanting to smack something other than her face. She really is FINE in this movie and funny to boot. I am a contractor myself and making fun of the way we are privatizing war and companys like Halliburtan is always good fun! I bought it, you may want to rent it first.Movie Review: Great potential wasted
Summary: 3 Stars
Being a followup to the excellent Grosse Pointe Blank, I had high hopes for this, but was let down by it over and over again. The nut of the problem was that it kept falling back to overtly political attempts at comedy. Some of it worked, but mostly when this movie ventured into the period political it was both unfunny and unpersuasive.
Three stars because there is 60% of a good movie here. The performances were decent, the parts that focus on character development are solid, and production values were pretty good (some below par set/effects work).
Ultimately, though, yet another potentially great movie ruined by the Bush era and the repeated, failed and painful (to watch) efforts of Hollywood make a movie that is both good art/entertainment and really, really against Bush and his administration.
Movie Review: War is a smash mouth parody ....
Summary: 3 Stars
...Smash mouth in that it doesn't try to be aubtle or discreet in its brutal assault on American foreign policy or consumerism in the world today. If you can get past its blatant attempts to punish America for its many shortcomings, it is a slightly entertaining story. Guy has unusual job, meets girl of his future, meets other girl who makes him react funny, and has a life changing series of moments. You also witness a haunted past from our Protaganist, and an antagonist you didn't even know existed at the beginning of film. The humor is there but its very dry and on its head.Movie Review: Couple laughs, but mostly misses the mark
Summary: 2 Stars
Had some amusing moments, but overall this satire misses the mark. For every memorable scene (such as the artificial-leg line dance and the "virtual embedding") there are five more that fall flat. Marisa Tomei looks as great as she always does but is asked to do little; and John Cusack reprises his Grosse Point Blank character, but with far lesser effect. The only surprise was Hilary Duff, who I only know as being a Disney singer - couldn't name a single song - but did a half-decent job as the local wanna-be diva. I really wanted to like this, but just can't really recommend it very highly.
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