War Machine (2017)

Directed by

David Michôd

Genre

comedy film, action film, war film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 02m

Rated

R

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 1,247 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A satirical comedy about a high ranking US general who tries to reshape the war in Afghanistan but faces bureaucratic and political obstacles. Brad Pitt plays the general based on a real life figure.

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What happens

War Machine is a 2017 American satirical war comedy film written and directed by David Michôd and starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Michael Hall, Anthony Hayes, Topher Grace, Will Poulter, Tilda Swinton, and Ben Kingsley. Based on the nonfiction book The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan by Michael Hastings, it is a fictionalized version of the events in the book based on United States Army General Stanley McChrystal. The film was released on Netflix on May 26, 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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