War Machine

Movie Review
Release on: May 26, 2017

Movie name	:	War Machine
Genres	:	Comedy, Drama, War
Run time	:	121 min
Produced by	:	Ian Bryce Dede Gardner
Directed by	:	David MichÃ´d
Music by	:	Nick Cave Warren Ellis
Writers	:	Michael Hastings, David MichÃ´d
Cinematography	:	Dariusz Wolski
Edited by	:	Peter Sciberras
Production	:	Plan B Entertainment New Regency
Countries	:	USA

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Stars : Brad Pitt, Anthony Hayes, John Magaro, Anthony Michael Hall, Emory Cohen, Topher Grace, Daniel Betts, Aymen Hamdouchi, RJ Cyler, Alan Ruck, Nicholas Jones, Will Poulter, Lakeith Stanfield, Ben Kingsley, Meg Tilly, Griffin Dunne, Josh Stewart, Kola Bokinni, Derek Siow, Hopper Penn, Pico Alexander, Scoot McNairy, Justin Rosniak, Paolo Gasparini, Simon Werner, Sian Thomas, Reggie Brown, Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Hassani Shapi, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Gillian Jones, Abdul Whahab, Mohammadi Gul, Abdul Salam, Richard Glover, Ben Peel, Elham Ehsas, Paul Hickey, Georgina Rylance, Zabitullah Zanikhil Haji, Tilda Swinton, Nadir Biyria, Aykut Hilmi, Nezar Alderazi, Hamed Said, Kick Gurry, Nicholas Maude, Rufus Wright, Gijs Scholten van Aschat, Rasul Mohammed, Noor Wali Khan Sakhi, Gilles Conseil, Daniel Fritz, Mirrah Foulkes, Orli Shuka, Omar Al Bahiti, Rahim Jan Ahmad, Sean Power, Nasser Rostai, Tim Downie, Tara D'Arquian, Robert Hladik, William Quickley, John Street, Felix Koch, Luke Morton, Lauren Murphy, Nicola Bogula, Alexander Forsyth, Andrew Byron, Amy Clare Beales, Benedict Hardie, Danny Kim, Josh McConville, James O'Connell, Perry J. O'Halloran, Dan Wyllie, Samuel Allison, Lasco Atkins, Richard Banks, Roy Beck, Kishore Bhatt, David J Biscoe, Paul Leon Bridger, David Burge, Abbey Marise Butler, Bern Collaco, Mark Christopher Collins, Alexander Cooper, Pamela Betsy Cooper, Russell Crowe, Cyrielle Debreuil, Paul Dewdney, Nick Donald, Alexandra Doyle, Daniel Eghan, Chuka Ekweogwu, Tony Eno, Ricardo Ewert, Karl Farrer, Marketa Flynn, Susan Fordham, Alexander Furno, Kevin Fyfe, Karen Gaynord, Helen Iesha Goldthorpe, Armen Grayg, Guna Gultniece, Tony Hamilton, Neil Harget, Pete Buzzsaw Holland, Mo Idriss, Alex Jaep, Dolly Jagdeo, Minouche Kaftel, Bentley Kalu, Denis Khoroshko, Fred King, Cole Leman, Jorge Leon Martinez, Nick Longland, Marian Lorencik, Matthew David McCarthy, Rohan Mehra, Andy Mihalache, Anthony Milton, Dan Noye, Lucia Oskerova, David Pilgrim, Antonio Piras, Jamie Roberts, Deborah Rosan, Derek Roy, Samantha Russell, Leonie Schliesing, Casey Shannon, Teresa Shaughnessy, Earl Vincent Sherwood II, Mick Slaney, Adam Stone, Daniel Teleky Toth, Vic Waghorn, Jon Wennington, Tony Paul West, Jo Westcott, Anick Wiget, David John William Williams, Stephen Woollard, Alexander Yassin, Miroslav Zaruba, Tatiana Zarubova

Story : An absurdist war story for our times, writer-director David MichÃ´d (Animal Kingdom) recreates a U.S. General's roller-coaster rise and fall as part reality, part savage parody - raising the specter of just where the line between them lies today. His is an exploration of a born leader's ultra-confident march right into the dark heart of folly. At the story's core is Brad Pitt's sly take on a successful, charismatic four-star general who leapt in like a rock star to command NATO forces in Afghanistan, only to be taken down by a journalist's no-holds-barred exposÃ©.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

‘War Machine’ revolves around Glen McMahon (Brad Pitt) – a war-hardened general with one clear agenda: to put an end to the war. This solution is marred by the fact that US Marines are attempting to win over a war-torn Afghan population while hunting ISIS terrorists, resulting in a significant number of casualties at both ends. McMahon is a firm believer in the counterinsurgency and motivates his group of Marines to follow him into battle at the drop of a hat. His determination inspires an almost cultish reverence amongst his troops, who blindly trust him and his solutions even though there’s no evidence of their efficacy. They surround him in a sycophant cocoon, enabling a vicious cycle as they reinforce his unrealistic outlook, which only propels them further into misguided chaos – eventually leading to their downfall.

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