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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: MILLENIUM MEDIA SERVICES
EAN: 0687797121967
Feature: WAR, INC. is a political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President (Dan Aykroyd). In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires a troubled hit man, played by John Cusack, to kill a Middle Eastern oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin m
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: First Look Studios
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: First Look Studios
MPN: FLP-12196
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: First Look Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Running Time: 107 minutes
Studio: First Look Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Features:- WAR, INC. is a political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President (Dan Aykroyd). In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires a troubled hit man, played by John Cusack, to kill a Middle Eastern oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin m
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A wobbly mix of violence and sentiment, War, Inc. takes up where Grosse Pointe Blank left off. A conscience-stricken killer in the previous film, producer/co-writer Cusack now plays an international assassin. In Joshua Seftel's political satire, corporations operate like governments. In the volatile nation of Turaqistan, Cusack's hot sauce-addicted Brand Hauser sets his sights on Omar Sharif--the oil baron, not the actor (it's never clear why this is meant to be funny). As a cover, Hauser passes as the producer for an economic trade show with fellow operative Marsha (Joan Cusack) acting as his assistant. Trained by Southern smoothie Walken (Ben Kingsley) in his CIA days (depicted though flashbacks), Hauser now takes orders from an oily CEO (Grosse Pointe co-star Dan Aykroyd). Offing Sharif, however, turns out to be harder than expected. Hauser's obstacles include left-wing journalist Natalie Hegalhuzen (Marisa Tomei) and foul-mouthed pop tart Yonica Babyyeah (Hilary Duff, erasing innocent images of Lizzy McGuire). Cusack and his crew come up with a few clever ideas, but too many crass gags blunt their thesis about military contractors run amok. Pitched somewhere between Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove and Mike Judge's Idiocracy, War, Inc. registers as more of a miss than a hit. On the plus side, Cusack and Tomei have a snappy rapport; it's the more over-the-top performers who look out of place, especially Ms. Cusack and Kingsley, though the latter's deft turn as a boozy hit man in the overlooked You Kill Me almost makes up for this misfire. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Rating: -
This is a mediocre looking blu-ray. It appears to be somewhere between 780p and 1080i. It was also formated from widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio) to fit TVs with dimensions of 16x9 (1.77:1 aspect ratio). Disappointing.
Rating: -
Outsourcing wars, killing people that want to kill you, using charity as cover, and teaching yourself how hot sauce can become a tool of the trade are all things that the movie brings to the table. It is a sppof and has a spoof feel, and some of the movie really is funny. Conversations held with your navigation device to discuss your problems is a good example of that, because some of the things that it says are truly funny material. Other things also rear their heads and get good laughs as well, and the first half of the movie would have been a five-star beast if it would have kept up its pace. It didn't do that, though, and instead became convoluted and a bit on the boring side. By the end of the movie I was just ready for the thing to end, and i really didn't expect that. I say that because of the main person involved is someone i like, and he had his hands in the project fromt he beginning. Still, it does have some moments in it and they are really good moments, so I didn't find myself totally hating the movie.
One of the things I did dislike was the way Hilary Duff's character was portrayed. This isn't meant as a knock on her acting skills, but is instead meant to address the issues of the character itself. She goes from an accented star to a person with hidden feelings that sounds like Duff, and that didn't play out well. Neither did the forced love connection that enters the fray, or the overall connection between the past and the present. Looking at the scenes that some of this happens in makes me think that they should have been funny and, if executed properly, they would have been great. They were not played out well, however, and the mixture of many things makes the over-the-top violene seem like it wants to be something like Shoot-em-up but without all the wonderful little things that made that movie funny.
One pro in the movie was the acting of John C., however, but I expected that. I liked what he did with his character and i liked the subtle things that came out when he interacted with other people. I even bought into his killer instincts when they were displayed, and how they made him look like a man that was an artist when it came to killing. As I said before, i simply could not find my footing in the storyline and it diminished the character's capacity to make me laugh, ruining some rather good moments. If John C. was less talented at taking roles and bending them to his will, i would have found the movie even less desirable than I did.
Some people do like this movie a lot and i respect that, too. I want people to know that as well, thinking they should perhaps read why they thought the movie was a good one and measure those pros and cons. As i pointed out in my review, I liked the start of this beast and I thought that it had quite a few moments that really took the proverbial cake. I just couldn't eat a whole slice because it seemed undercooked and, as everyone knows, uncooing things can poison even the most healthy of persons.
Not my cup of tea - or hot sauce, if you prefer.
Rating:  -
At the time of this review, the BD at 10.49 is substantially lower than the DVD price. Bargain hunters take note. The picture quality and audio quality is passable for a BD, but definitely better than dvd quality. It is also widescreen.
The Arctic town scene makes it look like a serious spy movie was going to erupt. The comedic music should have alerted me.
This BD should be kept away from the hands of children as their heroine Hillary Duff is spouting profanity continuously and staying in sexy poses. The antithesis of Lizzie McGuire. Hillary Duff walks a fine line between mocking a culture and mocking a religion. No fatwas have been issued against Duff, so we are good. Hillary Duff sings a few ditties in this movie.
Jeffrey Donovan and Gabrielle Anwar (Burn Notice TV series) would have made a better job of deadpan comedy. Physical slap-stick comedy is not necessary for this sort of satire.
My American friends find this movie difficult to swallow, because they see in this movie their tax dollars wasted in Turaquistan, which has all the letters of I-R-A-Q in it.
The rest of the world might find this satire spot on and cutting too close to the bone. Whatever your political views are, this BD is worth the price.
Rating:  -
I am a big fan of John Cusack but this movie is so unwatchable and unfunny that even Cusack looks terrible in it. You can sometimes see in his face that he knows his lines stink. The movie's approach to being funny is to have everything be over the top and that gets old very fast. Skip and avoid it.
PS: I didn't finish it.
Rating: -
If you loved John Cusack, as I did, in the perfectly dark comedy "Grosse Pointe Blank", I would suggest you stay away from "WAR, Inc." in order to keep intact the image of the character Cusack played. "War, Inc." presents us with an odd mutation of that character, a mutation that is neither funny nor in any way compelling... The background this time is a fictional, war torn Middle Eastern country where all the natives behave like stereotypical cartoon versions of themselves. The World has been taken over by corporations which governments subcontract to conduct wars on their behalf. The more wars, the more profits. Cusack has been hired by one of the corporations to destabilize the region by assassinating the country's president. His cover: he is managing a contractor EXPO, where the main event is the wedding of a local pop star. The corporation headquarters are in the basement of the local "Popeye's Gravy and Biscuits"...If this sounds ridiculous, that's because it is. The humour never becomes intelligent enough or funny enough to graduate into the realm of political satire. As a viewer you are stuck, firmly surrounded by misfired jokes and poor filmmaking.
If you feel strongly compelled to buy this film, I suggest that you "test drive" it on Video on Demand for less then three bucks. Hopefully, this will prevent you from spending more $$$ on a DVD...
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