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War Machine
An idiosyncratic general confronts opposition from enemies, allies, and bureaucrats while leading a massive rebuild operation in Afghanistan.
21 March 1995, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
10 August 1971, Bath, Somerset, England, UK
July1977, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, UK
28 January 1993, England, UK
3 April 1946, London, England, UK
1970, Cuckfield, West Sussex, England, UK
31 December 1943, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
May 26, 2017
Perhaps it's a case of honoring the literary source material too much, as War Machine fundamentally fails as compelling cinema. It's not smart enough to be a think piece and not visceral enough to evoke anger.
May 25, 2017
No actor plays dimwits quite like Brad Pitt. And they aren't just regular old dimwits: They're the sort of bafflingly idiotic, all-star dimwits you couldn't picture using a spoon properly, let alone solving that pesky Middle East crisis.
May 26, 2017
Brad Pitt stars as the deluded but determined four-star US army general Glen McMahon in this satire on the late days of the war in Afghanistan.
May 29, 2017
A confused comedy that wastes the promise of its premise. And Brad Pitt's performance, sadly, belongs in a different film entirely.
May 26, 2017
An uneven satire boosted by a larger-than-life performance from Brad Pitt.
May 26, 2017
I wouldn't be surprised if some observers say Pitt made huge miscalculations in his acting choices with the result being the worst performance of his career - but I found it to be a brazenly effective piece of work, well-suited to the material.
May 28, 2017
War Machine is a good film but not a great one, hamstrung by too many ideas and too little focus
May 26, 2017
Brad Pitt pushes the role of a rogue general too far into caricature and defangs the film by forgetting that world leaders and policy wonks don't mean a thing if they're not flesh and blood.
May 26, 2017
It's broad (sometimes cartoonishly so) and a bit all over the place, but it still manages to occasionally sting and leave a welt.
May 25, 2017
Pitt's oddly jokey performance as General Glen McMahon tends to overwhelm everything going on around him. That's too bad, because this anti-war satire has barbs a'plenty for pride, ignorance and the American can-do spirit.
May 26, 2017
A film that veers wildly from war movie to character drama to satire to history piece to a blended gray of nothing.
May 26, 2017
A muddled satire about the war in Afghanistan awkwardly forced to camouflage its lead character behind a pseudonym.
