War Dogs

Money, corruption and the American Dream

Two friends in their early 20s are living in Miami Beach during the Iraq War, and manage to exploit a little-known government initiative that allows small businesses to bid on U.S. Military contracts. Starting small, they begin raking in big money and are living the high life. Then the pair gets in over their heads when they land a 300 million dollar deal to arm the Afghan Military... a deal that puts them in business with some very shady people, not the least of which turns out to be the U.S. Government.

114 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Violence, Drug abuse).
Comedy, Crime, Drama, War.

Showtimes

The army ain’t what it used to be ...

Credits

Cast	Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, Ana de Armas, Kevin Pollak, Bradley Cooper, Shaun Toub
Director	Todd Phillips
Screenplay	Stephen Chin, Todd Phillips, Jason Smilovic, from the article by Guy Lawson
Music	Cliff Martinez
Cinematography	Lawrence Sher
Editing	Jeff Groth
Sound formats
SA distributor	Times Media Films
Made in	2016
Produced by	Green Hat Films, Joint Effort, The Mark Gordon Company

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Comedy
Language	Frequent, strong
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Fairly frequent to frequent, moderate impact
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None (sic)
Comments
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 17 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Ann Hornaday Young guns shoot far too many blanks.	5
Cape Times Todd McCarthy Two misguided opportunists.	10
ScreenIt Jim Judy Overall, I enjoyed the flick that only goes to prove that when it comes to the U.S. government, you should never really be surprised by how much is paid and to whom.	12
Metacritic.com 41 critics	11
Rottentomatoes critics 169 critics	12
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer War Dogs rises on the strength of Jonah Hill&rquot;s compelling performance to take a lightly entertaining look at troubling real-world events.	12
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	11
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Humor mixed with guns, drugs, swearing in fact-based tale.	10
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 58 users	15
Rottentomatoes users 17410 users	14
Internet 11109 Netizens I&rquot;d say it&rquot;s perfect save for minor nuances	15
Average .. 58%	12