Best movie ever!

A Masterpiece!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This satire was not critical of the Army, but the replacement of the Army with a company who is not accountable or even legally liable for the horrors brought to the third world. As a member of the US military I have no qualms with Cusack lambasting Academi (Formally and more famously known as Blackwater Security).The violence that some disagree with is most likely a response to; "The Iraqi Government revoked Blackwater's license to operate in Iraq on September 17, 2007 after an incident involving a shootout that took place in Nisour Square which caused the death of seventeen Iraqis." So lets just try to give the movie another chance by assuming that Tamerlane=Blackwater.

John Cusack?s (who I always enjoy watching) War, Inc. takes a somewhat unfair and certainly imbalanced look at the Iraq War, specifically the role of Halliburton in providing the ways of means of conducting it. There is something like a plot layered over the protest with Cusack revising his ?Grosse Pointe Blank? assassin?s role and with a more grown-up than we have seen her Hillary Duff as his daughter / Southeast Asian pop star. The actions of the characters are just a vehicle to revisit the film?s main point that the same contractor paid to destroy the country is also being paid to rebuild it. Some of the sight gags are memorable particularly the tanks sporting Golden Palace.com billboards and an kick-line featuring amputees showcasing the fictional Halliburton?s latest prostheses. The gags are original although the material is not; I was reminded of the George Carlin Vietnam-era routines about largely the same topic. If you are all to the left of Dennis Kucinich you might want to skip it.

Movies like this are easy to review: absolutely rubbish with no saving grace. As a viewer you are always two steps ahead of the plot, such as it is. At least it doesn't take itself too seriously - except for the bits where someone delivers A Political Message.The acting is not so bad, except for Hilary Duff's awful accent - or should I say accentS since she keeps slipping in and out of hers. But the story goes nowhere. I agree with the anti-war sentiment behind the movie, but the execution is absolutely terrible. Too much kookiness without actually being funny. A movie that will sink without trace.

This film tried to be too many things all at once: stinging political satire, Hollywood blockbuster, sappy romantic comedy, family values promo... the list goes on and on. It failed miserably at all of them, but there was enough interest to keep me from turning it off until the end.Although I appreciate the spirit behind WAR, INC., it depresses me to see such a clumsy effort, especially when it will be taken by its targets to reflect the lack of the existence of a serious critique, rather than simply the poor writing, direction, and production of this particular film.There is a critique to be made about the corporatization of war. But poking fun at it in this way diminishes the true atrocity of what is happening. Reminds me a bit of THREE KINGS, which similarly trivializes a genuine cause for concern.