"War Dogs" is a film about horrible people that refuses to own the horribleness. It's too enamored with its glib arms dealer heroes, and although it's Whenever the movie concentrates on Iz and David's marriage problems, it confirms its softness. Every time it asks us to care deeply about whether David.
Here's my review for "War Dogs"! War Dogs seems like a film with a ton of potential, because of the people involved in it, but lacks the spark to make it anything other than okay. 'War Dogs' Review: Jonah Hill and Miles Teller Bring Out the Big Guns. Two stoner bros become international arms dealers in this satire from the director of 'The Hangover'.
I've heard some critics complain about this movie's shifting tones — except tones do nothing but shift for David and Efraim. War Dogs is a good movie, even if you've seen movies like it a million times before, as the almost generic Rags-To-Riches-To-Rags-Again story is played out in a very predictable fashion. "Based on a true story," the movie "War Dogs" says, and indeed it is. Which proves conclusively that truth is stranger than fiction. Among the review quotes on the Amazon page for Guy Lawson's book Arms and the Dudes is one from the magazine Mother Jones, which reads "it There's a similar kind of disguised smuggling operation going on in War Dogs. Superficially, the movie looks a lot like past Phillips comedies about. War dog is a comedy, drama movie that takes on the sensitive issue of war and puts it in a peppy way for the people to see the truth behind the curtains.
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Wars Dogs is a solid movie, but only partly succeeds at blending Todd Phillips' brand of bro-comedy with social/political commentary. War Dogs, similar to Scorsese's movies, also brings the story of David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli's rise to infamy to life as an energetic R-Rated. War Dogs is a movie about the side of war that is rarely talked about, perhaps only in faint glimpses, and Phillips, with the help of a perfect duo in Miles Teller and Jonah Hill, has given us a great look at that side of things. "War Dogs" Movie Review.
Instead we get a milquetoast War Dogs, seen through the eyes of Diveroli's partner David Packouz (Miles Teller), and the result is a clear case of what-could-have-been. War Dogs emerges from a similar dark place as The Wolf of Wall Street and The Big Short, but its howl from the abyss is muted by the film's distrust in its own material. Larger set pieces try to propel the audience with slow motion and music cues, but feel like temporary placards that say "insert big movie. War Dogs is being sold as a comedy, and given that it boasts The Hangover director Todd Phillips behind the wheel, perhaps understandably so.