War is no laughing matter and in Netflix‘s War Machine has a job to do. In the second trailer for a satirical look at the Afghanistan war, Brad attempts to Liberate the sh*t out of you.Hot-shot General McMahon (Pitt) endeavouring to cut through the politics of war only to be reminded, time and time again, that this is one machine that can’t be stopped.
Without getting too political many us know the American policy of ‘intervention’ in countries they don’t like some will say has made the world a less safe place to live in. Sometimes that war effort finds them way over their heads and the problems start to pile higher and higher. In this upcoming Netflix Original movie, Pitt’s character has a job to do is it more troops? The Officials say no and how do you disobey those orders? Fake a bad connection! It is War-torn Afghanistan after all!
In a film for our times, writer-director David Michôd (Animal Kingdom) recreates a U.S. General’s roller-coaster rise and fall as part reality, part savage parody – raising the spectre of just where the line between them lies today. He is an anti-establishment, pro-soldier exploration in the form of an absurdist war story of a born leader’s ultra-confident march right into the dark heart of folly. At the story’s core is Brad Pitt’s sly take on a successful, charismatic four-star general who leapt in like a rock star to command coalition forces in Afghanistan, only to be taken down by his own hubris and a journalist’s no-holds-barred expose. War Machine addresses the debt we owe to soldiers to question the purposes to which they are being directed.
When your ‘boys’ all they want to do is play with their d*cks and eat chicken it calls for a true leader is Pitt’s McMahon the man to deliver? He thinks he is and from the footage, we get from the trailer the troops do like him. He does have A George W Bush type persona. Pitt does have magnetism and a great support cast to hand, this should go down well even if it’s not showcasing ‘new ground’ on the war on terror. There is new footage including Ben Kingsley‘s former Afghanistan President which gave us a chuckle.
War Machine a Netflix original film, will be released globally on Netflix on 26th May 2017.
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