Review: WAR INC.

Another film that was looked over by this year's Golden Globes, WAR INC. John Cusack co-wrote and stars in this political satire set in fictional, war-torn country of Turaqistan which is occupied by a fictional American corporation Tamerlane industries.

In this bleak version of the immediate present and future, America is a country that is in the business of making war for profit--i.e. after blowing the country to smithereens we sell and spoon feed Democracy to the Turaqistani's. It is a bitter pill to swallow. A future where great coporations spend vast amounts of dollars shaping the worlds nations into what they see as profitable ventures. Where everything even human life and limb is profitable. This is a frighteningly real concept, and alot of truth can be said in jest.

As "Hauser" John Cusack is a hitman hired by the corporation's CEO (played by Dan Ackroyd) to kill a Middle Eastern oil minster. Hauser's cover will be that of a Trade Show producer hired to put together some kind of show and organize the wedding of Central Asian popstar Yonica Babyyeah (played very well by Hillary Duff). Rounding out the cast are Marisa Tomei, Joan Cusack and Ben Kingsley.

As the film progresses, we see Hauser is not unlike John Cusack's hitman in the film Grosse Pointe Blank. He is very charming, enigmatic, and other than Hagelhuzen (Tomei) the only one with a heart and a conscience. I mean, the man tortures himself by drinking hot sauce straight up from a shot glass. What a guy. And while the moral and emotional implications of what he has to do mount around him in a mass of dark humour, we the audience can't help but laugh.

Marisa Tomei's character, is a left wing investigative repoter who also becomes a love interest to Hauser along with Yonica Babyyeah. It is an interesting triangle to say the least.

Overall, after giving you this little bit, the film is a well told tale. Much better and funnier then Wag the Dog. War Inc is a polically scathing black comedy that pokes holes in the image of American Captalism and reveals greed for what it is--evil.

See this movie and open your mind to new ideas.