A political satire about the Iraq war starring Dan Aykroyd and John Cusack hits movie theaters this weekend.
"War, inc." it's a parody against the war in Iraq.
Dan Aykroyd portrays a former vice president in this futuristic drama in which conglomerates are now running the world and he heads one of them.
John Cusak plays a hit man hired by the sinister company running the war on this country.
Then the surprisingly big budget kicks in as a new character is introduced, a local pop superstar played with surprising skill and a good middle eastern type accent by Hilary Duff of all people.
And John Cusack's character feels a strange connection with her he can't quite define.
Marisa Tomei co-stars as an investigative journalist who wants to get a pass outside the protected "emerald zone" (jargon here for Baghdad’s' infamous or famous green zone) to tell the real story.
But the overwritten script, which tries to make every single solitary word of dialogue important and detailed, becomes tedious as the film slips into the world of a polemic.
So Ben Kingsley turns up as a war monger who gets even more sinister as the story moves along, but his role isn't big enough to help.
Movie critic Jeffery Lyons said War Inc. is too heavy handed.
Halfway through the story which meanders to its conclusion, you'll be saying, 'I get it, I get it already.
This is a parody of the war on Iraq.' beyond that the explosions and rented military hardware must have cost more than the screenplay.
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