Interesting

Rating: 6/10 (28 August 2016)

I saw "War Dogs", starring Jonah Hill-The 21 Jump Street movies, Django Unchained; Miles Teller-The Divergent movies, Footloose_2011; Ana De Armas-Hands of Stone, Exposed; Kevin Pollak-Angel From Hell_tv, End of Days and Bradley Cooper-Joy, All About Steve.
This movie is based on a true story about 2 young men-in their earlier 20's-living in Miami Beach, that sold guns & ammo to the American Allies in Afghanistan in the 1980's. Jonah and Miles play the 2 childhood friends that get into the fascinating world of gun running. They started small and worked their way up to a $300 million contract with the U.S. government. Ana plays Miles wife. FYI: the real life person that Miles is portraying makes a cameo appearance in the movie as the guitar player in the old folks home that is singing, 'Don't Fear the Reaper' by BOC. Kevin plays a small businessman that backs the boys-financially-on some of their deals in return for a cut. Bradley plays another arms dealer that does business with Jonah & Miles. Bradley is on a 'Watch' list, so he can't do business with the government himself. Some parts of the movie are interesting, some are predictable. There are lots of recognizable music in the soundtrack; I remember hearing songs by Vanilla Fudge, Aerosmith, The James Gang, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Wolfmother and The Who. It's rated "R" for language, drug use and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 54 minutes. It's not one that I would buy on DVD but it would be alright, as a rental.