A modern Dr Strangelove you are not

Rating: 4/10 (27 December 2018)

I think this is Netflix's 1st big budget production and it stars Brad Pitt in a satirical look at war. Pitt is an overzealous Army general wanting to win the war in Afghanistan. Pitt's accent is annoying, is he trying to be Norman Schwarzkopf from the 1st Gulf War? Anyway it gets political all too often, tries to be funny then towards the end when a Marine accidentally kills a kid, gets serious. Pitt simply delivers his father a big bag of cash to make it all better. The movie ends with a Rolling Stone article of Pitt's character criticizing the President, which gets him fired. The last scene has Russel Crowe walking down the halls showing there's a new General to continue the never ending vicious cycle.
Definitely slanted towards the anti-war side and is very political without really being right or left wing. The film makes sure to insult Obama to make sure we all know this isn't left wing propaganda. The movie does that type of thing a lot. I think the idea of the movie is good but the execution could have been better.