2017 · comedy · drama · war
War Machine
Directed by David Michôd2h 2m2017
A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true story of General Stanley McChrystal.
Our read: War Machine (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · war entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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How War Machine feels to watch.
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“You want a sharp Afghanistan satire about ego, media, and unwinnable wars.”
Skip it tonight — War-room irony and talky brass politics will lose you quickly.
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