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Rating: 6/10 (14 November 2016)

War Dogs
The worst thing about war profiteering is that the ghosts of your victims haunt your money.
Luckily, possessed Benjamins don't deter the amoral marketers in this dramedy.
Following a string of dead-end jobs, David Packouz (Miles Teller) decides to take his old high school buddy Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill) up on his offer to help him sell small shipments of firearms to the US war effort in Iraq.
But when the deals start getting dangerous, then downright illegal, David's conscience and pregnant wife (Ana de Armas) start to influence his decisions.
A highly fictionalized adaptation of an investigative article later elongated into a bestseller, War Dogs embraces its dramatized narrative for the sake of light entertainment. And while the leads do work while together, their puerile antics slight the gravity of the film's context.
Incidentally, it's surprising that two Americans did all this work without having to outsource to India.
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