War, Inc.

War, Inc, is my kind of movie. This film reeks of sarcastic wit, smart ass (as opposed to smart) dialogue, satiric comparisons of the current war in Iraq and with the bloodline of Dr. Strangelove, The President's Analyst and Lord of War running in its veins. Lead player John Cusack made a similar style film about a decade ago with Grosse Point Blank, and War, Inc. with Cucsack and sister Joan Cusack and Dan Aykroyd, along with Marisa Tomei, Hillary Duff and Sir Ben Kingsley feels like a re-imagining of that film.
Cusack plays Hauser a mercenary working for a global conglomerate that's used to outsource modern wars in all aspects. The fictional country of Turaqistan becomes Hauser's personal battlefield as he fights off demons of idealism even while wasting just about everyone he meets. At one point Cusack defends his company's liquidation policy by offering the axiom: American knowhow alleviates the suffering it creates.
Other howlers remind us that Anderson Cooper is a Vanderbilt, that scorpions can be dangerous as well as sexy and that Duff might actually have a future as an actress. We're constantly being bombarded by images of American culture morphing one into the other. The one lone honest character, Tomei, all but loses her head. Kingsley struts with a Southern accent like he was born in Mississippi.
Just when you think War, Inc. will veer into sentimentality it still has a few storefronts to explode, a few political jabs to throw, and terrorists to gun down. In limited release War, Inc. should be hunted down (it's at the Angleika) and seen immediately.