Director Todd Phillips, best known for directing comedies such as The Hangover Trilogy and Old School among them ventures into real life territory with War Dogs, a film about the Iraqi War of the second President Bush and the people who benefited from it financially.
You would not expect a comedy film coming out of it, but thanks to Phillips, he successfully transported the story of two real life best friends in their early twenties from Miami Beach who were able to avail a little known government initiative of small companies to bid on U.S. Military contracts. Put Jonah Hill, fresh from his two Oscar nods and Miles Teller a rising Hollywood commodity after his Oscar winning film Whiplash together as the BFF's then War Dogs is pure Hollywood fun that finds comedy in times of war and atrocity anchored by the excellent chemistry of the two lead actors. The film also stars the lovely Ana de Armas who plays Teller's wife and Bradley Cooper popping in and out of the film as a man with a mysterious background.
One good thing also about the film is
that you will able to learn something new about the "War on Terror" as
what the Bush Administration would like to say besides the usual bombing
on Iraq and the quest for oil we knew from the internet as well as CNN, Fox News and BBC. Fun, entertaining and yet lessons
learned: that's War Dogs for you.
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