Alex Garland has built a career in the mind of the breathtaking public while making them wiggle in their seats. His previous hot potato, “Civil Wars”, sent chills throughout this fractive and broken nation because his thesis seems horribly plausible, perhaps even inevitable.
“Warfare” is a different beast, even if it also offers cattle out of your comfort zone and jackhammers all the raw nerves of your body. It is also thin (a little over 90 minutes), effective, concentrated and is a pure and simple technical masterpiece, sound effects with the incredible edition of arid and surrealist cinematography that sometimes makes you want to suffocate. Garland joins forces with the first director Ray Mendoza to adapt a story drawn from Mendoza’s own service tour in the war in Iraq as part of the SEAL team of the Marine 5. More specifically, the “Warfare” is inspired by the Mission of Mendoza in Ramadi 2006, in Iraq. And after seeing what he met, it is surprising that Mendoza and many in his troop escaped from their lives. Not everything did it.
“Warfare” gains the credibility and authenticity of Mendoza shares the functions of director and writer, and his influence better informs the film. The result is one of the most visceral sockets on what it is to go under a relentless enemy shot that many combat films, except “saving the private Ryan”. While Steven Spielberg’s piece of war has allowed you to come to the air from time to time, “Warfare” does not do so. It is a singular experience and concentrated on an American troop which sets up a surveillance operation in the apartment of a family where what begins as a monotonous and banal operation turns into bloody chaos because these young men (all played) are shots and attacks.
“Warfare” runs out of steam, but what is ingenious on this subject is that it is not a rah-rah-rah, GUNG-Ho film, but a sober look at what is really going on in battle, and the value and the courage of those who are uniform as well as the loss of members and life. The casting is enormous and even if it is difficult of single, the actors who embark on your subconscious are of Haraon Woon-A-Tai like the Mendoza with widely wide but reasoned eyes, Cosmo Jarvis as a lead elite shooter Elliot Miller (his own, the chariot lead officer, Erik. Support. but the real stars are on the technical side here, in particular these geniuses of sound effects that perceive your ears as if you were in combat.
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‘WAR’
3½ stars out of 4
Notation: R (violent graphic war scenes)
With: Haraoh woon-a-tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Joseph Quinn, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett
Director: Ray Mendoza, Alex Garland
Operating time: 1 hour, 35 minutes
When and where: Now playing in the bay rooms
.Details: 3½ stars out of 4; Open in theaters on April 11.
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