War Machine

2017 "We're gonna liberate the sh** out of you."
6| 2h2m| R| en
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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.

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VividSimon Simply Perfect
Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
latinotoons A wonderfully scripted film: engaging, entertaining deadpan, and not the least bit disrespectful, it exhibits the inherent contradictions in war and empire-building--wait, we don't call it that anymore...Brad Pitt is a charismatic powerhouse in his role as the Glennimal.
Abhay Bhatt America is doing wrong by staying and fighting in Afghanistan - REALLY?!!!? This is a well-acted and well implemented movie, but the whole anti-war message it is trying to deliver, spoils the show.I agree that U.S. decision to invade Iraq, in the first place, was absolutely wrong and immoral and unethical. But, if someone says that US should stop fighting and leave the place, then in my view, that person is literally an idiot!With respect to Afghanistan(depicted in the movie), nothing is wrong or unethical or immoral. Fighting Bin Laden or Taliban are noble causes, without any doubt or debate, notwithstanding some other minor collateral intentions or causes, on the US side.I seriously think the director and the writer are idiots, when it comes to common-sense and general knowledge about the world. They should stick to film-making only, instead of trying to lecture on morality and international politics/relations.
cinemajesty Television / Online Review: "War Machine" (2017)Another exclusive online distributed Netflix productions without a MPAA certificate (Motion Picture of Association of America) to call its own, directed by David Michod, known for a critically-acclaimed at International Festivals running "Animal Kingdom" (2010) starring Guy Pearce and Joel Edgerton, when here star-actor Brad Pitt transforms into a fictitious seemingly-artificial creation of leading character General McMahon, who gets assigned to bring re-spawning discipline and motivation into the U.S. military in Afghanistan stationed since 2001 in an in-affordable war on splintering Taliban insurgency, closing-in for further impossibilities of detection, when the black market opium trafficking gets left out completely as major thread to domestic security in a book adaptation also-written by director David Michod, who takes full responsibility for "war-on-terror" satire, which is not what is seems to be due to the strangely-granted European tour to Paris among other destinations to strength moral issues within four-star General McMahon's platoon section."War Machine" gets hardly into full throttle drive mode at any time. Even though the controversy of the Afghanistan invasion lingers through every single scene carried by actor Brad Pitt, who also being responsible for raising a massive 60 Million U.S. Dollar budget for an 115-Minute-Editorial that becomes dynamically insufficient with no major combat action beat or mesmerizing personal conflict scenes given, despite moments of tiresome privates sitting in front of the stand-making General in breeding hot rays of sun in desert fortress exteriors featuring some impressive U.S. military merchandise from sand-swarming arriving Black Hawks and Vietnam-War-approved Transporting Chinooks, first manufactured in 1961, all implanted unusual static as plainly-lit cinematography by Darius Wolski, known for Initial 3D Digital High-Resolution capturing for Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" in season 2011/2012, when supportive appearances by actress Tilda Swinton as questions-raising German Journalist, Meg Tilly becoming match-making General's wife Jeanie to Afghan president joyful-playing actor Ben Kingsley cannot save this strangely-received U.S. military-comedy of an artistic interpretation concerning ongoing war issues with respect to world-market-selling resources of inflicted human tragedy.FAZIT: Picture rejected (ineffective) © 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)
abdullahkesgin-296-834167 don't believe all those negative commentsthey have gone to their theatre to see a "war" movie, but this is not shallow head rambo they wanted. this is self questioning which we all need to embrace, we the people of the worldone of the best performances of Brad Pitt BUT Tilda Swinton and Ben Kingsley were unbelievable good. it was İmpossible to tell they were actors. both Tilda and Ben were there to save the soul of the movie, they didn't act, they were living the events that were being told. Tilda 's was one of the best performances (if not the best) in her carrier. overall a surprisingly honest movie to teach us how to question our decisions. the scene chaplin prayed blewed my mind. as it courageously showed how israel's politics became America's religionafter the movie people were saying there happened nothing, no action, no gore, no explosion. they missed all the point. DECİSİONS, FEELİNGS, QUESTİONİNG happened as they should be.a must see movie for the ones who hasn't lost their thinking ability