Battling Through a Streaming Drought

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I don’t know about you, but lately it seems like everything is available for streaming, but nothing is on. With one exception, and I’m surprised we didn’t cover it more when the movie came out.

If you haven’t seen it yet, check out Warfare by Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza. This one fits into a larger trend of “just experience it” war movies that goes back to Black Hawk Down and runs through Dunkirk.  This one, however, is set during the insurgency in Iraq and is about as stripped down as can be. You’re with a small outfit that has taken over a neighborhood building. They are subjected to an insurgent attack on their position, and they need to be evacuated. You’re in for all the tense silence, the subtle joking, listening in to the radio transmissions, and then for all the explosions, the human frailty, the delayed decision-making that has costs in blood, and the leadership that saves lives.

It’s hard to rate as a film because the plot is so elemental. But as a movie experience, the sound editing and the action are terrific in every sense of the word, done with expertise, and likely to cause and induce terror. There are also touching extras if you buy the film, because it is a true story based on the experiences of Mendoza in Iraq, and tells the story of his own comrades.

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