Movie Review

War, Inc. (2008)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | May 29, 2008

Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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Details Limited Release: May 23, 2008; Genre: Comedy; With: John Cusack and Hilary Duff

$A LOSING BATTLE John Cusack aims to satirize military-industrial ties in War, Inc., but here\'s the bottom line: It\'s a...$

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A LOSING BATTLE John Cusack aims to satirize military-industrial ties in War, Inc., but here's the bottom line: It's a bomb

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John Cusack co-wrote, co-produced, and stars in War, Inc., an overbearing lampoon of American war profiteering — a comedy so leaden it could make a liberal hate liberal Hollywood. Set in the junked Middle Eastern war zone of ''Turaqistan'' (wink, wink), it tries for the toxic Brand USA satire of Idiocracy and Southland Tales, but there isn't enough going on in it. Cusack, playing a corporate assassin, makes geniality smug, as he romances a ditzy leftist journo (Marisa Tomei) and fends off a skanky Britney clone — played by Hilary Duff with an anger that occasionally wakes the movie up. D

Originally posted May 29, 2008 Published in issue #995-996 Jun 06, 2008 Order article reprints

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