‘War Dogs’

LIBERAL truth is stranger than fiction in ‘War Dogs’ (2016). A rollicking arms deal dramedy starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller under the direction of Todd Phillips (‘The Hangover’).

Exploring the business of war via loopholes and dubious legality, the film alights on two high school friends reunited at a funeral and looking to change their luck.

In George Bush’s America, internet arms dealing seems just the ticket and Efraim Diveroli (Hill) and David Packouz (Teller) enter the world of weapons sale with as much whooping and dodgy decision-making as one would expect from a pair of 20-something-year-olds getting rich quick off the war in Iraq.

Based on ‘Arms and the Dudes’ (2011), a Rolling Stone article by Guy Lawson, the film is certainly diverting if not decidedly derivative. Playing like ‘Lord of War’ (2005) meets ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ (2013), ‘War Dogs’ kicks along buoyed by a remarkable performance by Hill who plays slimy sociopath with ease.

Another film to add to the boys behaving badly genre, ‘War Dogs’ moralises little and entertains more than most.

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– martha@namibian.com.na; Martha Mukaiwa on Twitter and Instagram

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