US EditionMovie review: 'Warfare' captures intensity of battle
- The film 'Warfare' is co-directed by Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza, focusing on a Navy SEAL team during the Iraq War in November 2006.
- It attempts to convey realism by depicting a night in Ramadi Province, where events unfold based on soldiers' memories.
- 'Warfare' shows US soldiers entering an Iraqi family's home, where they remain hostage as violence occurs outside.
- Critics note that 'Warfare' focuses on objectivity and realism, presenting a disquieting portrayal of war with no dramatic hooks or clear character development.
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‘Warfare’: The Making of the Most Blistering, Realistic War Movie in Years
While Alex Garland is best known for science-fiction and horror (Ex Machina, Annihilation, Men, Devs), the writer/director took a realistic approach to societal collapse with last year’s blistering Civil War. Now, he presents an even more authentic portrait of battlefield carnage and chaos with Warfare. Now in theaters, it’s a harrowing real-time drama about a U.S. Navy SEALs unit that, in 2006 Iraq, finds itself surrounded by enemies in a resid…
‘Warfare’ Review: Alex Garland Makes One of the Most Effective War Movies Ever
In discarding Hollywood tropes in favor of truth, the makers of “Warfare” have crafted one of the most viscerally powerful stories about combat ever filmed. Co-written and co-directed by Alex Garland (“Civil War,” “Ex Machina”) and Ray Mendoza, the deeply immersive film tells the true story of one chaotic, terrifying day experienced by Navy SEALs on a 2006 surveillance mission in Ramadi, Iraq. It aims for utter authenticity, usually shunted asi…
Alex Garland’s Iraq film Warfare offers only violence – to its detriment: review
The director of ‘Civil War’ and a real-life Iraq veteran have rounded up a cast of young stars – including Will Poulter, Kit Connor and Charles Melton – for a film that focuses on a few hours of chaos in Ramadi province in 2006
‘Warfare’ Review: Alex Garland Co-Directs (With an Iraq War Veteran) a Film That Purports to Show Us What War Is Really Like. But Has He Just Left Out the Story?
"Warfare" presents itself as an immersive experience, and I think it will be lauded for being an immersive experience. To me, though, it was not. Watching it, I felt involved and detached at the same time. The film strips itself of most of the active elements that immerse us in a war movie — like, for instance, treating the soldiers as fully colored-in characters.
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