War, Inc.
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Movie Reviews of War, Inc.
Movie Review: Liberals love it; republicans hate it
Summary: 5 Stars
Bush/Cheney lovers will hate this movie. Makes 'em squirm. It's easy to blame Hollywood, but in actuality, The truth hurts, huh?
Rent IDIOCRACY for a similar take on what those 8 years did to the U.S.
Movie Review: HILARY duff rocks
Summary: 5 Stars
finally hilary duff isin a movie ibeen waiting for her shes a beautiful young actrees that is why igive her a 5 and the great cast. yay for hilary she rocks.Movie Review: This is NOT an action adventure movie, it's satire...
Summary: 4 Stars
If you want an action adventure, keep on looking, this is NOT what "War, Inc." is all about.
If you are after action and all you want is some escapist entertainment you will not like this film, I can almost guarantee it! If, however, you are intruiged (i.e., confused and stymied) by Bush-era American international relations (or lack thereof), and geopolitical maneuvering, then you may like this show.
John Cusack plays a disaffected hit-man who is forced to go to a central Asian country that has been invaded by a corporate army. The war is billed as the first corporate military invasion in history. All troops, armor, weapons, etc., are corporate owned AND operated. Cusack poses as the organizer and promoter of a huge trade show that will take place in "The Emerald City" (i.e., Green zone) in the middle of a raging war. His main purpose in being there though is to kill the president of a neighboring country so that the corporation can expand its conquest of the region.
The cast is really quite amazing - John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Dan Ackroyd, Ben Kingsley, and more!
When I started watching this film the first time I thought it would end up being just an action adventure/comedy, but as the film went on it started to realize that it's not just satire, but HEAVY-DUTY satire! In places it's downright hilarious if you know what to look for. Don't get me wrong...this is NOT a comedy, it's satire. And, being satirical it is sometimes sad, sometimes funny, and consistently confusing (after all, what is more confusing than Bush's approach to international relations?).
The more I think about it the more I want to award it 5 stars for insightful and clever satirical genius, but some weaknesses keepit from being a 5-star offering.
Well, I liked it! (This review is based on a content-edited version of the film.)
Movie Review: Fun
Summary: 4 Stars
"War, Inc." does indeed follow in the steps of "Grosse Pointe Blank," but it is quite different.
The satire here is broader and at the same time more focused. In "Gross Pointe," the targets were Gen-X anomie and individual angst.
Here the targets are political and social: pre-emptive war, the privatization of everything, the selling of everything (happiness, sex, youth, glamor, death), corporatization, the emptiness of celebrity-culture.
This movie doesn't have the energy and snap of "Grosse Pointe." Cusack is jowly and tired. But "War, Inc." makes a virtue of that very tiredness by making Hauser/Cusack's disenchantment more believable.
There are lots of nice touches.
Ben Kingsley is amazing as the Southern-fried CIA psychopath. (Kingsley tries to strike it rich with a Roman Empire Themepark, complete with His and Hers Vomitoriums. It fails in the Real Estate collapse, but the parallel between decadent Rome and equally-decadent U.S.A. is clear.)
Ackroyd does a brief, crude, but spot-on slam at Cheney.
Joan Cusack has turned into a zoned-out control-freak corporate harpy, perfect for the role.
Marisa Tomei is mostly OK as the crusading, frustrated reporter. (She does have a little trouble keeping a straight face.)
But--amazing!--best of all is Hillary Duff.
Duff is superb. Who knew she could act? She does. She acts circles around everyone, even Kingsley. She is at her best--even more amazing!--not when playing the vamped-out teen slut but when playing the tormented, lost waif.
Movie Review: War, Inc.
Summary: 4 Stars
A political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires a troubled hit man, to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah an outrageous Middle Eastern pop star, and keeping a sexy left wing reporter in check. This is an old-fashioned comedy, with a ridiculously plot twists, fun performances by John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Marisa Tomei and Hillary Duff) and a straightforward approach to the political content. That's all, and it works. It's simple light comedy with a political edge.