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  • 2008
  • R
  • First Look International
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • First Look International
  • 1 h 47 m

Summary War, Inc. is a political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former U.S. Vice President. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the warn-torn nation offers, the corporations CEO hires Hauser , a hit man, to kill a Middle Eastern oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growin...

Directed By: Joshua Seftel

Written By: Mark Leyner, Jeremy Pikser, John Cusack

  • 2008
  • R
  • First Look International
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • First Look International
  • 1 h 47 m

War, Inc.

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 21 Critic Reviews
37
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 28 User Ratings
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Summary War, Inc. is a political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former U.S. Vice President. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the warn-torn nation offers, the corporations CEO hires Hauser , a hit man, to kill a Middle Eastern oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growin...

Directed By: Joshua Seftel

Written By: Mark Leyner, Jeremy Pikser, John Cusack

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 21 Critic Reviews
37
24% Positive
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38% Mixed
8 Reviews
38% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 21 Critic Reviews
37
24% Positive
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38% Mixed
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75
It's a bewildering mix of very smart and very dumb, but the cast, which also features a hilarious Joan Cusack, Ben Kingsley, Marisa Tomei, Dan Aykroyd as the Cheney-esque ex-vice president, and Hilary Duff as a Turaqistan airhead pop star, is tiptop.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
63
This script bumps along, good ideas jostling with weak, derivative ones, and Seftel doesn't seem to know which way he wants to handle the material. Also, with Cusack playing yet another soul-fried wiseacre running on emotional autopilot, the piece doesn't have much of an engine.
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Generally Favorable Based on 28 User Ratings
7.4
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29% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 28 User Ratings
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64% Positive
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29% Mixed
8 Ratings
7% Negative
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50
Its comedy too often blunders into meaningless slapstick, with bombs and bloodshed replacing pratfalls and pies in the face.
By Bill White FULL REVIEW
40
Antiwar, anti-Bush, anti-corporate, yet neither as progressive nor half as funny as the "Harold and Kumar" sequel, War, Inc. squanders some top-tier talent (Marisa Tomei, Sir Ben Kingsley) as well as our patience.
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38
All that's missing is coherence. Call it Blunderbuss Satire.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
25
Misfires so severely that even the clever details get obliterated in the resulting mess.
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12
The movie has two modes - very loud and extremely loud - and all of the actors are encouraged to mug their hearts out. That even includes Cusack's real-life sister Joan, normally one of the most reliable performers in the business.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
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Production Company New Crime Productions, B & W Films, Boyana Film Studios, Millennium Films, Nu Image Entertainment GmbH
Release Date May 23, 2008
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline When it comes to war...America means business
Website http://www.myspace.com/warincofficialsite
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Awards

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