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I actually thought this movie was going to be as cool as the movie Lord of War, boy was I wrong. WAR, INC. is one of the most unfunny, non-brilliant political satire. The joke is on the movie itself for failing to give us anything worth laughing despite its effort to exaggerate the current state of… the world today in terms of war and politics. It dogs on conspiracy and how U.S. creates dictators in other countries only to eventually call them villains and assassinate them in the future but everything is done in a way that in the end makes you wanna say, that’s dumb!

Hausser is a Hitman who works secretly for the Vice President. He’s been assigned to assassinate the head of the Turakistan country. A trade show would be his disguise, an event in which he finds himself falling for a journalist and tempted by a rising sex symbol pop star. Will he be able to get the job done or will he continue to be distracted?

WAR, INC. is dry and uncreative. It means to be unconventional but it comes off dull and nothing entertaining.
You can tell that they’re trying to amuse you with the twists and the brief action sequences but they try to hard and the result has no purpose whatsoever.

Don’t get me wrong. John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Dan Aykroyd and Ben Kingsley, they’re all great actors but this is the wrong movie for them.
This makes them look like B-stars who couldn’t find any other gig to do.
Hillary Duff wants to hit the big time by cussing up a storm and dogs on the image of Britney Spears but all you get is still Hillary Duff.

I gotta admit, the filmmaker does try to show us how commercialization and the so-called globalisation a.k.a Americanization are being used as a poor excuse for prosperity in a war torn country that’s been bombed to kingdom come. But what the filmmakers doesn’t successfully do is come up with creative, out of the box effective representations instead of cheesy anecdotes and metaphors.
The visual and the art direction are one giant pile of mess.
In the end you keep looking at your wristwatch, wondering when the hell this torture is going to end.

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