Already you guys are DUMB with your geography, to top it your DUMB AMERICAN movies makes it worse ... first scene of the movie is shot in Dubai airport, it has UAE flags and you can see the locals in the background ... this DUMB start has related UAE flag to AFGAN ....

This film not only criticizes the war in Afghanistan but the interference of the US in other countries as a whole. Not many Americans will like this one. Unless you are ready to accept someone showing your mistakes. This film is about mankind failing in general. It is about our failure. President Kazai is shown as a joke. War is brutal. Civilians are killed. Europeans are trying to be diplomatic but failing hard at it - they are not with the US on this war but also not against it. Humor is very well inserted and on a high level. Contains a lot of references to real events so if you are not politically up to date you will not get the joke. It is also sad and show as our helplessness at the same time.

An idiosyncratic general confronts opposition from enemies, allies, and bureaucrats while leading a massive rebuild operation in Afghanistan. Netflix's War Machine is a terrible and bland comedy that has Brad Pitt portraying a character that is simply made to praise "America" all around the globe and fails to deliver on all aspects also the narration was annoying and some cameos like from Ben Kingsley were so weird and terrible and the overall story that the film sells is not that interesting to be told. (0/10)

It wasn't a movie I enjoyed very much, but it was a good movie. You can feel it in your guts. It's a description of the US operations in Afghanistan, and I had expected a liberal viewpoint that made fun of the mess there. But it wasn't so. It actually showed viewpoints from multiple perspectives.Brad Pitt plays a general, newly appointed to the region in order to "fix things". And he is trying to. He fights bureaucracy, politicians, and insurgents alike in order to get things done. He has a faithful group of subordinates who worship him and help him do whatever he wants. Ironically, his technical approach makes him the enemy of the US administration, which only needs to show they are trying, without actually having to succeed. Ben Kingsley has a few scenes as president Karzai that are ridiculously funny, too. "But I am acting as a leader. I am unavailable", he says in one scene. Hilarious.In the end, one cannot but sympathize with a guy who wants to end the war, militarily or course, by unequivocally winning it, regardless of what human issues are hindering the victory. He has a job to do, even if it's obvious no one wants him to do it. The movie shows how these kinds of "wars" were never meant to be won, even if you had someone actually trying to.Bottom line: A movie is impressive when it manages to portray a US army general as a simple task oriented technician, hired like you would hire a plumber to do a job. It gets even more impressive when it shows how impossible that job really is. And the acting was great. The mood was a little too deadpan for me. It is something that amuses you internally while you wonder why everything is moving so slow. I believe this was deliberate, in order for the viewer to understand a little bit of how slow things are really moving in the real world.