2016 · comedy · spy
Army of One
Directed by Larry Charles1h 33m2016
Gary Faulkner is an ex-con, unemployed handyman, and modern day Don Quixote who receives a vision from God telling him to capture Osama Bin Laden. Armed with only a single sword purchased from a home-shopping network, Gary travels to Pakistan to complete his mission. While on his quest, Gary encounters old friends back home in Colorado, the new friends he makes in Pakistan, the enemies he makes at the CIA - and even God and Osama themselves.
Our read: Army of One (2016) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · spy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / spy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
- funny
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