Warfare does its best to thread the tricky needle between giving an honest depiction of the horrors of war told through a skirmish in the Middle East being told from the point of view of some extremely green American soldiers without descending into jingoistic oo-rah American imperialist bullshit. I’m not sure it fully succeeds, and ultimately it ends up falling between the two stools and pleasing nobody.

Still I’m glad Alex Garland got this out of his system though.