Sophisticated political satire, ridiculous farce, black humour, spoof, intellectual game playing and comic invention
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02/06/09
War, Inc. (2008)
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Reviews Counted:77
Fresh:22
Rotten:55
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: War, Inc. attempts to satirize the military industrial complex, but more often than not it misses its target.
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Comedies
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
Director: Joshua Seftel
Reviews for War, Inc.
A wildly free-ranging satire [that] runs riot through a fistful of genre conventions.
05/21/08
For critics of the war with an appetite for red meat, War, Inc. will prove filling, if not quite completely nourishing.
06/26/08
This non-nihilistic film is a vision of our political complicity and humane potential.
05/28/08
Look at War, Inc as a back-flipping, over-the-top political farce, and the results are far more pleasurable. Consider the film an unofficial sequel to the 1997 classic Grosse Pointe Blank, and War, Inc. is absolutely wonderful.
05/15/08
Somehow, what starts as a series of cheap shots in a barrel develops into something more, thanks largely to warm, engaging performances by Cusack and Tomei. War, Inc. is both right-on and somehow off, but it gets points for trying.
05/23/08
Top CriticThough it occasionally tries too hard, the fast-paced and sharply written War, Inc. is audacious and entertaining.
05/23/08
While its plot aligns War, Inc. with other, higher-profile action-thrillers, its political critique is more explicit and its ad campaign more oblique.
07/03/08
The hilarious jokes and one-liners make take two viewings to fully absorb, but the movie also has an almost off-putting cynicism.
06/12/08
Like a campy cross of Dr. Strangelove and Wag the Dog, this celluloid anti-war screed serves up a mesmerizing melange of action, romance, slapstick, intrigue, sentimentality and sensuality while warning of the dire prospects of a corporatized planet.
05/20/08
A film that confronts the absurdity and violence of modern warfare by taking it to the surreal and goofy next level.
06/27/08
The story fairly zings along in War, Inc. as Hauser struggles to complete the mission he does not believe in, woo the reporter who despises him, and watch over the vile teenage singer (Duff) he feels an unexplainable fondness for.
05/01/08
It's a lot more dystopian than I thought it would be, at times reminiscent of something as nutty as Brazil.
06/03/08
War, Inc. has that provocateur's edge, and it's at least awake to the world around us.
06/13/08
Piercingly funny political satire with terrific cast is on view in this future-set story.
10/18/08
Those who get it will surely spread the word.
05/23/08
It's a bewildering mix of very smart and very dumb, but the cast is tiptop.
05/23/08
And yet, while even the most charitable viewer would be forced to consider "War Inc." to be a somewhat unfocused and undisciplined mess, there are still a lot of good things strewn throughout the wreckage.
06/12/08
A great political satire - a Dr. Strangelove for the YouTube generation
06/15/08
A punk-rock Strangelove riff on a mission very much unaccomplished.
05/15/08
Latest News for War, Inc.
January 21, 2009:
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June 28, 2008:
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. 
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June 23, 2008:
Ben Kingsley Is Everywhere
Think you're seeing Ben Kingsley everywhere lately? It's no optical illusion -- his roles in The Love Guru and The Wackness are just two of the many projects he's got lined up... More...
May 22, 2008:
RT Interview: Joan Cusack on War, Inc., the Unofficial Sequel to Grosse Point Blank
Joan Cusack and her little brother, John, have co-starred in ten films together since the early 1980s; this week they join forces again to skewer the military industrial... More...
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