war dogs review
My Rating: 7.1/10
IMDb Rating: 7.3/10 Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 60% Metacritics Rating: 57/100 My Favorite Quotes
Solid flick My buddies and I went to go hit his movie up in our nearby theater my one friend was leaving for university and really wanted to see it so I tagged along. The story revolves around to young men I their twenties who buy guns, explosives, and ammunition which they than sell to the American military/government for large profits. This is apparently a true story, but I can't attest to that for he simple reason that I have not hear of them, maybe that is because I am Canadian and Not American. From the trailer I was expecting this extremely funny upbeat movie about a dynamic duo who makes money and gets fucked over in the end. For the most part that is exactly what I got. Some really funny and entertaining scenes. Specifically when Jonah Hill gets ripped off after paying a guy for weed, so he decides pull a fully automatic weapon out of his trunk and he than insists on unloading rounds of ammunition into the air. Another scene that was amazing would have to be when they are being chased by the Iraqi militia. And in the meantime their friend from Jordan who is smuggling them begins to fill the car with fuel as the militia sprays bullets at them. Now the acting throughout this movie was very, very good. Jonah Hill and Miles Teller have amazing chemistry that surprised the hell out of me. Bradley Cooper saw very minimal screen time, which was a disappointing, but he played his part very effectively. And I'm glad they didn't make him the villain or whatever you wanna call it. The movie itself had somewhat slow pacing. And what weirded me out was the plot. It felt extremely similar to a "Goodfellas" or a "Wolf of Wallstreet". Just here me out. A poor guy and his stunning girlfriend/future wife begin to make absurd amount of money. Which inevitably taint their morale standards and turns them bad, but in the end get caught by the police and suffer some sort of consequence. I have no problem with overused plots because they are biographical films. But when you don't do it as well, then it becomes a problem. This is by no means a movie that you MUST watch, but it is still very funny and an entertaining movie. |
Positives and Negatives
+ Acting
+ Funny
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-Overused Plot
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-Overused Plot
Criteria /10
Acting/Characters: 9/10
Plot: 7.5/10
Originality: 4/10
Pacing: 6/10
Soundtrack: 6/10
Dialogue: 8/10
Special Effect: 9/10
Theme: 8.5/10
Ending: 8/10
Plot: 7.5/10
Originality: 4/10
Pacing: 6/10
Soundtrack: 6/10
Dialogue: 8/10
Special Effect: 9/10
Theme: 8.5/10
Ending: 8/10