- John Cusack’s latest film, War, Inc., is rife with political commentary on corporate greed, unregulated military privatization, and the bewildering Us “democratization” of the Middle East. It is such a terrifying look into a possible near future that thankfully its creators have made it a comedy. Tanks roam the landscape advertising Popeye’s Chicken to impoverished civilians before blowing them up. The former Vice President, played by Dan Aykroyd, rules Turaqistan as CEO of the private security force Tamerlane (whose logo is twin sister to the red and white Haliburton). It’s hilarious, as long as you’re not a Neo-Conservative.Although this is director Joshua Seftel’s first narrative feature, he is a veteran of politically ambitious documentary filmmaking. His feature documentary Taking On The Kennedys as well as his Emmy nominated Lost and Found gave him a stepping off point for the fiction of War Inc.
- 5/4/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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