I liked Grosse Point Blank. It had hitmen and Dan Aykroyd, and that German song about balloons, and a shootout in a convenient store. And John Cusack was in it. Some people like him...
War, Inc. was supposed to be a kind of spiritual sequel to Grosse Point Blank, or at least I think it was.
Taking place in a fictional Iraq country, Martin Blank is a hitman starting to have doubts about his line of work. Dan Aykroyd shows up on a toilet for some reason, and John Cusack's sister shows up in the same role she played in Grosse Point Blank. The similarities pretty much end there. because this movie sucks.
In this fictional Iraq like country the Tamerlane corporate is looking to have Cusacks character kill some guy for some reason and theres a lot of other weird stuff I don't even feel like explaining; like Cusack talking to a on*star like computer guy, the ruler of the world being a big brother like guy called the Viceroy that talks to the world using mutating images that don't really make sense, and a Tamerlane base that is located in the freezer of a Popeye's chicken.
Hilary Duff is pretty good looking in it though.
What plays out feels like a Terry Gilliam movie, without his cool surreal visuals, mixed with Mike Judge's Idiocracy. And although it doesn't sound that bad, just imagine all of this happening with John Cusack acting like every character he's ever played and all the weird stuff mixed in in really awkward ways. I guess you could also say it was a live action South Park episode thats four times as long with none of the characters or insight.
Wtf Dan Aykroyd?
I think the main problem with the movie was that its more or less a satire on the current state of war, which might have been interesting back in 2005, but has since become pretty dated material.
I can't think of anything else to say other then don't see it.
