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War, Inc. (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 76

Fresh: 22

Rotten:54

Average Rating: 4.5/10

Consensus: War, Inc. attempts to satirize the military industrial complex, but more often than not it misses its target.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for violence, language and brief sexual material.

Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:May 23, 2008 Limited

Box Office: $515,643

Synopsis: John Cusack plays an assassin in the star-filled satire that takes aim at war. Joan Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Hilary Duff, and Ben Kingsley also star.

Starring: John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Marisa Tomei, Joan Cusack

Starring: John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Marisa Tomei, Joan Cusack, Ben Kingsley, Dan Aykroyd

Director: Joshua Seftel

Director: Joshua Seftel
Screenwriter: Mark Leyner, Jeremy Pikser, John Cusack
Producer: John Cusack, Grace Loh, Les Weldon, Danny Lerner
Composer: David Robbins
Studio: First Look

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Sophisticated political satire, ridiculous farce, black humour, spoof, intellectual game playing and comic invention

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
02/06/09
Andrew L. Urban
Urban Cinefile

It’s as if the movie is stuck in a muddy middle, unable to go whole hog with its sending up of toxic Americana and unwilling to be serious about exploring how toxic it really is.

Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment Comment
10/29/08
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

War, Inc. squanders some top-tier talent (Marisa Tomei, Sir Ben Kingsley) as well as our patience.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
10/18/08
Aaron Hillis
Village Voice
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What is supposed to be a sharp parody is so slow, we're always several steps ahead.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
10/18/08
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

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Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
10/18/08
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Either too cartoonish, or not cartoonish enough.

Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment Comment
10/18/08
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

This John Cusack-driven exercise in scorched-earth political comedy is neither as dark nor as timely as intended, and certainly not as funny.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
10/18/08
John Anderson
Newsday
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Piercingly funny political satire with terrific cast is on view in this future-set story.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
10/18/08
Pete Hammond
Boxoffice Magazine

If there's one thing a comedy needs, it's a good exit strategy.

Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI) | comment Comment
09/26/08
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

Despite flashes of comic inspiration and an abundance of anything-goes boldness, this well-intentioned but wobbly satire is a chaotic free-fire zone.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
07/18/08
Joe Leydon
Houston Chronicle
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Nice try, but this hallucinatory polemic never jells.

Full Review Source: Denton Record Chronicle (TX) | comment 1 Comment
07/14/08
Boo Allen
Denton Record Chronicle (TX)

Any hopes you might be holding out for a smart, sophisticated political satire will immediately be squashed at the sight of Dan Aykroyd on the toilet.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Weekly | comment Comment
07/06/08
Sean Burns
Philadelphia Weekly

Only occasionally hits the target.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
07/03/08
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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While its plot aligns War, Inc. with other, higher-profile action-thrillers, its political critique is more explicit and its ad campaign more oblique.

Full Review Source: NPR.org | comment Comment
07/03/08
Cynthia Fuchs
NPR.org

...there's plenty of material ripe for savage satire out in the world right now, and while I approve of the targets War, Inc. took aim at, I can't say that it ever scored a direct hit.

Full Review Source: KPBS.org | comment Comment
06/29/08
Beth Accomando
KPBS.org

Cusack as a mercenary in bulltetproof designer suits and Hilary Duff doing a kinky Arab superstar sexpot shoving scorpions down her crotch, can't save this satire crossing the line between the chaos of war and the chaos of filmmaking.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
06/28/08
Prairie Miller
NewsBlaze

A film that confronts the absurdity and violence of modern warfare by taking it to the surreal and goofy next level.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
06/27/08
Marc Mohan
Oregonian

An Iraq satire being released past the point when discussing the occupation has become wearying and parodying it a slow-target yawn.

Full Review Source: Let's Not Listen | comment Comment
06/26/08
Tricia Olszewski
Let's Not Listen

For critics of the war with an appetite for red meat, War, Inc. will prove filling, if not quite completely nourishing.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment 3 Comments
06/26/08
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
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Each earnest impulse blunts the edge of an already scattered satire and obscures the logic beneath it. And the laughs are buried in the same pile of disorderly conduct.

Full Review Source: Paste Magazine | comment Comment
06/17/08
Robert Davis
Paste Magazine
 
 
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