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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: FIRST LOOK HOME ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0687797121998
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: FIRST LOOK PICTURES
Manufacturer: FIRST LOOK PICTURES
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: FIRST LOOK PICTURES
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Running Time: 107 minutes
Studio: FIRST LOOK PICTURES
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Sales Rank: 8473
MPN: 12199
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Recreating his role as a hitman, John Cusack gives a hilarious performance in War, Inc., a political satire set in Turaqistan, a Country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former U.S. Vice President (Dan Aykroyd). In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires Hauser (Cusack) to kill a Middle Eastern oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation s Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (Hilary Duff), an outrageous Central Asian pop star, and keeping a sexy left-wing reporter (Marisa Tomei) in check.
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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:  -
Well, John Cusack is in an other kooky flick that's take place in the not-so-distant future in an imaginary country called Turaqistan, of which has recently been defeated by contracted soldiers in the name of corporate greed. Like a reality trade show, Turaqistan is going to become the star of an international show in which it is rebuilt with the help of Tammerlane sponsorship. The protagonist is sent to the country under the cover of a contractor-producer for the major rebuilding show. But really ... Read More
Rating:  -
I loved "Grosse Point Blank" and "High Fidelity" with Cusack and "My Cousin Vinny" with Tomei. Didn't love this movie, though. Although the production quality was really good and the acting was decent, it just didn't work for me. It seemed like it was mixing too many genres and not doing any of them justice.
Rating:  -
I loved it. Take John Cusack, add 1 part Brazil and pour over Starship Troopers, and you've got a hilariously bizaare commentary on geopolitics and the industrial war machine.
Its dark, and I mean, almost navy. Its only downfall is its heaviness, and sometimes it and the metaphors are jammed down your throat a little too often, but the ensemble cast is actually phenomenal, with Ben Kingsley and even Hillary Duff doing a great job (I can't believe I typed that).
You will ... Read More
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I certainly hope my video store doesn't double-charge me because it took me 6 days and several sittings to finish it. The comedy angle is certainly stale, the general endpoint of the "plot" becomes clear within the first 15 minutes and its cinematographic and soundtrack DNA is a derivative clone of better films like Full Metal Jacket (one scene's setup & music was clearly calling for "These Boots Are Made For Walking").
The issues it so clumsily attempts to address deserve a better airing ... Read More
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War Inc. is a bad movie. John Cusack shouldn't have been allowed to have this much scene time.
Peter Hammond of the Box Office Magazine compares this movie to Dr. Strangelove. I didn't know anything about Hammond, but now I do know he is crazy.
The ONLY redeemable part of the movie is the idea of putting advertisements on battle tanks.
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starring: John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Marisa Tomei, Joan Cusack, Dan Aykroyd
directed by: Joshua Seftel
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: FIRST LOOK HOME ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0687797121998
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: FIRST LOOK PICTURES
Manufacturer: FIRST LOOK PICTURES
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: FIRST LOOK PICTURES
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Running Time: 107 minutes
Studio: FIRST LOOK PICTURES
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Sales Rank: 8473
MPN: 12199
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