Review of War Dogs (2016) by The Movie G — 22 Aug 2016
In War Dogs, the Hollywood retelling of a stranger-than-fiction tale about novice US arms dealers, Jonah Hill plays a manic twenty-something who stumbles on a Pentagon website asking for bids on military contracts.
He recruits Miles Teller, a massage therapist, and soon they're in over their heads. Desperate to avoid having a deal cancelled, they deliver a shipment of arms to the Green Zone, blithely unaware it has been a suicide mission.
Their improbable success emboldens them to bid on a vastly bigger deal, only this time the gods are unforgiving. War Dogs is set in the quasi-criminal world of arms dealers, bottom feeders engaged in an obscenely profitable business.
For their Bagdad delivery Hill and Teller get paid in cash--$2.8 million in taxayers' money. Until someone figures out a way to make war far less profitable, anti-war demos remain exercises in utter futility.
This review of War Dogs (2016) was written by The Movie G on 22 Aug 2016.
War Dogs has generally received positive reviews.
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