Warfare

Warfare

Warfare is an exciting, lean and mean expose of what it’s like to be a soldier on the front line of war. Written and co-directed by Ray Mendoza, the film is based on his experiences an a U.S. Navy Seal in Iraq in 2006. It’s USP is its much vaunted total immersion, except that it’s not, and you’ve seen it all before from Ridley Scott’s ‘Black Hawk Down’ to Clint Eastwood’s ‘American Sniper’ and everything in-between. And even before that, films about the Vietnam War in the 1980s like ‘Hamburger Hill’, ‘Platoon’ and ‘Casualties of War’ mined the same visceral thrills and horrors of war from the point of view of your average grunt.

Yet, ‘Warfare’ is an undeniably exciting piece of cinema and as the latest example of ‘war porn’, hits all the right notes, if you like that sort of thing. I suspect it will make a lot of money in the States given the racist, nationalistic and authoritarian nature of Trump’s MAGA government. A case of ‘Amerika Uber Alles’. Yup, you can already hear the whooping and hollering in the cheap seats. HOOYAH!