War Inc. - You Order War: We Deliver

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Movie
German title War Inc. - You Order War: We Deliver
Original title War, Inc.
Country of production USA , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length approx. 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Joshua Seftel
script Mark Leyner ,
Jeremy Pikser ,
John Cusack
production John Cusack,
Danny Lerner ,
Grace Loh ,
Les Weldon
music David Robbins
camera Zoran Popovic
cut Michael Berenbaum
occupation

War Inc. - You Order War: We Deliver is a political satire with action elements from 2008 . The film was directed by Joshua Seftel and written by Mark Leyner , Jeremy Pikser and John Cusack . In Germany the film was released on DVD and BluRay on April 30, 2009 by Ascot Elite Home Entertainment GmbH.

action

The plot of the film is set in the near future and is largely set in the fictional state of Turaqistan. For the first time, the war there is completely in private hands, more precisely in that of the large American corporation "Tamerlane", which is led by a former Vice President of the USA. The company's manager hires Brand Hauser, a hit man, to kill the politician Omar Sharif. This stands in the way of the company's business interests. Hauser is hired to camouflage his job as organizer of a Tamerlane fair, the climax of which is the wedding of Britney Spears-like pop singer Yonica Babyyeah to the son of a corrupt Arab ally of the former Vice President.

Shortly after Hauser's arrival in Turaqistan, he met the critical journalist Natalie Hegalhuzen. The principled woman fascinates him immediately and prompts Hauser to rethink his assignment and help her with her research. As a result, he inevitably messes with his clients. In a first argument, he can supposedly kill one of them, Walken. Hauser also develops fatherly feelings for the pop singer who, at first glance, is only interested in superficialities and tries to dissuade her from the media-effective wedding. After a rapprochement between the journalist, Yonica and Hauser, the two women watch him in a bloody argument with thugs, which ends fatally for the latter.

Yonica and the journalist flee from Hauser and while the pop singer is preparing for her wedding, Hegalhuzen is kidnapped and threatened with death by supposed terrorists, actually filmmakers who want to earn money. Hauser saves her and escapes with her through the war zone, which was previously inaccessible to journalists. Back in the secure zone, Hauser warns Omar Sharif of upcoming assassinations, and thanks for that he tells him where his second client is.

Hauser decides to finally get this out of the way, but meets again with Walken, who is now on a wheelchair. Hauser learns from him that he was only used, that Walken killed his wife to turn him into an emotionless killing machine and that his daughter Yonica, who was kidnapped at the time, is Babyyeah. Hauser tries to prevent the wedding by all means, which he succeeds, but his adversary can save himself and has a guided missile fired at the sealed off exhibition hall. The "precise" Tamerlane missile misses its target and instead kills him and his followers. Hauser, Hegalhuzen and Yonica can finally flee the country.

Reviews

John Anderson wrote in Variety magazine on May 5, 2008 that the film taught that a parody shouldn't be too close to reality. The film is close to being funny - but only close (“It's so close to being funny you can just about taste it - just about”). It seems a bit like a comedy from the 1960s with Alan Arkin .

Frank Scheck wrote in The Hollywood Reporter on April 28, 2008 that the intentions of the film's authors were commendable, but that the film was an almost complete failure. Casting the role of a hit man with John Cusack is "psychologically strange". Some gags would work, but most would come off flat.

The lexicon of the international film judged: "Political satire without any particular impact that evades into sometimes embarrassing gags."

backgrounds

The film was shot in Sofia and Plovdiv . Its production amounted to an estimated 10 million US dollars . The world premiere took place on April 28, 2008 at the Tribeca Film Festival . On May 23, 2008, the film was released in selected US cinemas. Up until August 23, 2008, he made about 580.9 thousand US dollars there.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for War Inc. - You order war: We deliver . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2008 (PDF; test number: 116 591 DVD).
  2. ↑ John Anderson film review , accessed May 21, 2008
  3. ^ Film review by Frank Scheck , accessed on May 21, 2008
  4. ↑ War Inc. - You order war: We deliver. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ^ Filming locations for War, Inc. , accessed May 21, 2008
  6. ↑ Box office / business for War, Inc. , accessed May 21, 2008
  7. ↑ Release dates for War, Inc. , accessed May 21, 2008
  8. ↑ www.boxofficemojo.com , accessed August 23, 2008