Feeling pressured by the desire to provide a better life for Iz and his coming baby, David fully embraces the legal crime life by becoming business partners with Efraim, creating AEY Inc, which doesn’t really stand for anything.įrom then on out, the film has twists and turns that make for a fun movie that can feel all over the place at times, but in a good way. David dives headfirst into the business after finding out his girlfriend, Iz (Ana De Armas) is pregnant with his child. Efraim is like that person you know who everyone stopped hanging out with at a certain point he’s living purely off of nepotism, he is abrasive, pushy, and unwilling to mature into a fairly functional adult Jonah Hill tends to play these characters rather well now that he can no longer pass as a nerdy teenager. Then we meet Efraim, who introduces David to his government contract bidding schemes. He’s just an average guy getting by at the beginning of the movie he’s working as a massage therapist as his primary source of income, and for a little bit of scratch he’s trying to hock specialized luxury bed sheets to retirement homes. You feel this way about the character of David he’s the character you’re following throughout the film. Todd Philips is the master of taking characters no one should have any business liking and making them exceptionally likable just look The Hangover Trilogy, they’re all selfish douchebags but they begin to feel like they’re YOUR selfish douchebag friends. Starting out as low-level gunrunners supplying the United States military with necessary equipment by undercutting other companies over the internet seems like an insane premise steeped in fiction, but this actually happened. Oh, and American Idol was not only still very much a thing, but also a very popular thing at that…it’s funny how oblivious my 19-year old self was to the chaos and the ridiculousness that allowed two people like David Packouz (Miles Teller) and Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill) to profit off of the war on terrorism like they did. Stand-up comedians had a justified target in the antics and faux pas of our POTUS, Tom Cruise was jumping on couches, and there were supposedly going to be no more Star Wars after George Lucas closed out his prequel trilogy with Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith. ![]() Remember the mid 2000’s? That was an interesting time. Based on a true story, War Dogs tells the story of two friends who quickly get in over their heads in the gunrunning business during the war on terror in the mid-2000’s.
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