Synopsis
Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.
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Cast
- Miles TellerDavid Packouz
- Jonah HillEfraim Diveroli
- Ana de ArmasIz
- Bradley CooperHenry Girard
- Kevin PollakRalph Slutzky
- Patrick St. EspritCaptain Phillip Santos
- Shaun ToubMarlboro
- JB BlancBashkim
- Gabriel SpahiuEnver
- Julian SergiRosen
Recommendations
- 90
Variety
War Dogs marks a key turning point for Phillips. After all these years of yocks, it’s his first true grown-up movie, and it’s a nimble, gripping, and terrific one, with plenty of laughs, only now they’re rooted in the reality of fear, and in behavior that’s authentically scurrilous. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
This is a solid example of the Sobering Comedy, where we laugh consistently at the madness onscreen, all the while lamenting how it’s rooted in real-world reality. - 75
The Playlist
While War Dogs won’t go down as one of the great films about misconduct on a national level, it’s undeniably a decent enough popcorn ride. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Hardly inexperienced at playing belligerent, outrageous and offensive a-holes, Hill offers a definitive account of one here, to which Teller can only play the blander, if useful, second fiddle who has to try, and try again, to stand up to the gruff bully. - 70
New York Daily News
War Dogs may not reach "The Big Short" levels of resonance, but it clearly channels that Golden Globe-winning dramedy's newsreel aesthetic and lampooning of the Bush administration's policies. - 60
Village Voice
The film’s breezy drive and bursts of comic energy largely divert attention from the flatness of its world and characters. - 58
IndieWire
Hill embodies everything that’s best about the film around him: He’s funny, daft and broken in a way that’s more fun to gawk at than it is to fix. In a story that’s supposedly about the payoffs and perils of taking big risks, he’s the only one who puts his money where his mouth is. - 38
Chicago Tribune
The movie coasts on a blase, easygoing highway of cynicism regarding how America conducts its business of war. Despite all the Martifications and Scorsese-ing, we're left with virtually nothing, except the feeling that a pretty good anecdote has been inflated into a bubble-headed American Dream morality tale.
