7:20AM Defamer Hollywood | John Cusack’s meander through his second-consecutive anti-war film is coming under heavy fire at the Tribeca Film Festival, where
War, Inc. bowed this week to the kinds of reviews that made his previous Iraq entry — the $US50,899-grossing
Grace is Gone — positively shine in comparison. While he and his agent sift around for a more reliable rom-com follow-up, our preliminary poke through the wreckage yields yet more smouldering evidence that Iraq is officially over as a dramatic subject. We piece together the eyewitness testimony after the jump:
Cusack, in the latest of a seemingly endless (and psychologically curious) string of hitman roles, plays Hauser, a typically troubled assassin whose inner psyche is so dead that he resorts to downing shot glasses of hot sauce in order to feel anything. His latest mission, at the behest of Tamerlane — a Halliburton-type corporation run by a Dick Cheney-like former vice president (Dan Aykroyd) — is to assassinate a Middle Eastern oil minister named Omar Sharif (an example of the film’s humour) who is threatening to undercut their plans to build an oil pipeline in the wartorn country of Turaqistan. — Frank Scheck,
The Hollywood Reporter
