Release Date: 2017 May 26
Availability: Global
Netflix Original Movie
Plot:
This comedy war film follows Brad Pitt as General Glen McMahon, an idiosyncratic general confronting opposition from enemies, allies, and bureaucrats while leading a massive rebuild operation in Afghanistan. Review:
Rating: Watch it / [It depends] / Skip it
- This is on the cusp of something but never gets there. It wants to be both absurd and dramatic, but does neither. Brad Pitt's accent and facial contortions would fit perfectly in a comedy, but the content is too grounded. With a few tweaks this could be a a great comedy, or conversely a great drama. It's either trying to do both, or doesn't know what to do. Either way the end result doesn't quite work. This has great potential, but you can't rate a movie on what it could have or should have done.
Links:
- Watch the teaser video
- Watch the trailer
- Watch trailer #2
- Watch You Got Your Troops Video
- Inside War Machine with Brad Pitt Video
- Video clip
- War Machine - House of Cards mash up video
- Inspired by the non-fiction book The Operators about a journalist's journey in Afghanistan with General McChrystal who experienced a meteoric rise to power before resigning after a magazine expose.
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