War Dogs

It’s adequate and little more, with an occasionally inspired Jonah Hill and a less-than-memorable Miles Teller delivering sporadic laugh...

It’s watchable popcorn entertainment and it goes down easy, but material like this should be challenging and should at least ask a few p...

It’s a shame. The worst part is that you can see what War Dogs could have been.

A film about horrible people that refuses to own the horribleness.

Preoccupied with reassuring the audience of its savvy satirical credentials by perpetually telling us how amoral arms dealing is – but yet how...

«War Dogs» starts off longing to shock us with its incredible tale. It ends up presenting its story so generically that it loses the quirky ir...

Even if you’re not aware of this real-life story, you’ll recognize the well-worn narrative of dudes who hustle their way to the top&nbs...

Like «The Hangover," this film seems to seek an audience of mostly men, high-fiving across the aisle.

The characters have no memories, no identities, no range of interests, no personal connections, no idiosyncrasies beyond the dictates of the plot a...

Phillips, also a co-writer on this mishegoss, directed this tired, lumbering, flaccid story of arms-dealing rascals as though hoping to be mis...

At best, War Dogs is a missed creative opportunity; at worst, it’s a quasi-celebration of two vile schemers, one that ignores the b...

Hard to imagine a less imaginative rendering of this story.

It’s a terrifying, towering performance, and one that would normally lend Hill toward Oscar consideration, if only the rest of the film...

Sure, there’s voiceover, freeze frames, and morally reprehensible characters, but it reads more like a parody film than an inspired one.

The fingerprints of The Big Short, American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street are evident in the storytelling style. But War Dogs isn’t in t...

Instead of outrage or any sense of shock and surprise, all the film has on offer is mild entertainment. Given the company, that feels like a bit of...

Everything in this film, from the voiceover narration, to the familiar rock 'n' roll and Sinatra musical cues, to the freeze frames, to the tale of...

The filmmaking is surprisingly lazy, even listless, stuffed with obvious music cues and unnecessary chapter breaks that merely add to the lurching...

By bantering with the lads and slapping their wrists at the same, War Dogs is left with countless rounds of illicit ammo and no clear satirical tar...

A meandering comedy dependent on its leads' natural high-strung (and often high) rapport.

Stop the presses: War makes people rich. Stop the movie: These people, who cares?

The film is unrepentantly cynical when it comes to the global business of warmongering, but proves unsurprisingly earnest when it comes to the lure...

I’m getting a bit weary of movies «based on a true story» that chronicle big-time scams by sleazeball upstarts.

A movie that’s mostly posing, and sometimes forgets how good its raw real-life material really is.

The satire hits with powder-puff force thanks largely to the film’s ruinous lack of moral shading around David and Efraim’s exploits.

Despite all the Martifications and Scorsese-ing, we’re left with virtually nothing, except the feeling that a pretty good anecdote has been i...

Utterly specious.

Hill’s braying-bro performance is indelible. Unfortunately.

This airless, laugh-less true story about 20-something wheeler-dealers turned arms salesmen during the Bush-Cheney invasions of Iraq and Afghanista...

Since wrapping The Hangover trilogy, Phillips’s creativity hasn’t developed – it’s devolved.