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War, Inc.

War, Inc. (2008)

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Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 81
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 57

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

22

Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 18

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

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An assassin posing as a trade-show producer fixes his crosshairs on a Middle Eastern oil minister while maintaining his cover by organizing a high-profile wedding in this satirical action comedy starring John Cusack, Hilary Duff, and Marisa Tomei. A private American corporation run by a former U.S. vice president (Dan Aykroyd) is occupying the war-torn nation of Turaqistan, but a powerful Middle Eastern oil minister is preventing them from taking total advantage of the situation. In order to

R, 1 hr. 46 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure, Comedy

Mark Leyner, Jeremy Pikser, John Cusack

Oct 14, 2008

$0.5M

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Critic Reviews for War, Inc.

All Critics (82) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (61) | DVD (7)

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

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Aaron Hillis
Village Voice
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This John Cusack-driven exercise in scorched-earth political comedy is neither as dark nor as timely as intended, and certainly not as funny.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Newsday | Comment
John Anderson
Newsday
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Despite flashes of comic inspiration and an abundance of anything-goes boldness, this well-intentioned but wobbly satire is a chaotic free-fire zone.

July 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Joe Leydon
Houston Chronicle
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Only occasionally hits the target.

July 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | Comment
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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For critics of the war with an appetite for red meat, War, Inc. will prove filling, if not quite completely nourishing.

June 26, 2008 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comments (5)
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
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Like the smart weapon technology it mocks, War, Inc. aims at the right targets but misfires so severely that even the clever details get obliterated in the resulting mess.

June 13, 2008 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
Reyhan Harmanci
San Francisco Chronicle
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Capitalism takes a hit in dark, uneven war satire.

December 8, 2009 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Charles Cassady
Common Sense Media

This absurdist political farce has its moments but requires a deft touch for satire ... perhaps no one could have made the uneven script work.

July 30, 2009 Full Review Source: GreenCine | Comment
Craig Phillips
GreenCine Source: GreenCine

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

February 6, 2009 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
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.

October 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | Comment
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

[W]eary with its own irony...

October 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | Comment
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

What is supposed to be a sharp parody is so slow, we're always several steps ahead.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | Comment
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Either too cartoonish, or not cartoonish enough.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | Comment
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

Piercingly funny political satire with terrific cast is on view in this future-set story.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | Comment
Pete Hammond
Boxoffice Magazine

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

September 26, 2008 Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI) | Comment (1)
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

Nice try, but this hallucinatory polemic never jells.

July 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Denton Record Chronicle (TX) | Comments (4)
Boo Allen
Denton Record Chronicle (TX)
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John Cusack returns to Grosse Pointe but this time in iraq i mean turkestan. A funny movie, well acted, but not as good as some of Cusacks other work.

November 24, 2008
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They bring the War Home at your Order! One of the really...well how to describe this Movie? Oh yes Its political satire at its best.

May 21, 2008
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