The CIA man, Brand Hauser, is a man of few words and a lot of action. He is seen as the story begins going into a saloon in a remote Alaskan post. We are not prepared for what he does after a shot of Tabasco sauce! Hauser, who pilots his own private jet, has deep conversations with someone through a device in the panel of the plane. He even gets to talk to the US vice-president, who talks from the privacy of his own bathroom while engaging in some bodily functions.
This political satire makes fun of the folly of the war on Turakistan by placing the action in the middle of the conflict, where Hauser goes to take part in a trade fair sponsor by the powerful Tamerlane corporation. On his arrival in the country, Hauser is assisted by the media expert, Marsha Dillon. The agent has been sent to take care of oil minister Omar Sharif who dares to think he can get an oil pipe line through the country, something that clashes with the Tamarlane group's interests in the country.
Directed by Joshua Seftel, who has worked on television, and based on the screenplay in which the star of the film, John Cusack helped produce, "War, Inc" deals with issues and scandals too many to go into detail. Suffice it to say that no one is spared at all. Parallels with the present conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan are clearly what the creators intended all along, something the last administration probably didn't appreciate, or even vice-president Cheney. Mr. Seftel has some success in presenting a chaotic situation in a satiric way.
John Cusack is all over the film. He makes a case for his Brand Hauser. Marisa Tomei plays a leftist oriented journalist that has come to cover the war and has too many questions that go unanswered. Joan Cusack is also on hand to give one of her usual funny performances. The surprise is Hillary Duff, who goes almost unrecognized. Ben Kingsley is also seen in a pivotal role.
Credit must go to John Cusack by daring to do the impossible with a subject that not many would have touch with a ten foot pole.
This political satire makes fun of the folly of the war on Turakistan by placing the action in the middle of the conflict, where Hauser goes to take part in a trade fair sponsor by the powerful Tamerlane corporation. On his arrival in the country, Hauser is assisted by the media expert, Marsha Dillon. The agent has been sent to take care of oil minister Omar Sharif who dares to think he can get an oil pipe line through the country, something that clashes with the Tamarlane group's interests in the country.
Directed by Joshua Seftel, who has worked on television, and based on the screenplay in which the star of the film, John Cusack helped produce, "War, Inc" deals with issues and scandals too many to go into detail. Suffice it to say that no one is spared at all. Parallels with the present conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan are clearly what the creators intended all along, something the last administration probably didn't appreciate, or even vice-president Cheney. Mr. Seftel has some success in presenting a chaotic situation in a satiric way.
John Cusack is all over the film. He makes a case for his Brand Hauser. Marisa Tomei plays a leftist oriented journalist that has come to cover the war and has too many questions that go unanswered. Joan Cusack is also on hand to give one of her usual funny performances. The surprise is Hillary Duff, who goes almost unrecognized. Ben Kingsley is also seen in a pivotal role.
Credit must go to John Cusack by daring to do the impossible with a subject that not many would have touch with a ten foot pole.