Warfare

CinemaSerf

April 20, 2025

7/10

A squad of American soldiers seemingly randomly select an house in Ramadi and having relocated it’s sleeping occupants to the ground floor, set up a sniper station from where they can monitor the goings on around them. Initially, this all looks harmless enough as the Iraqi locals go about their business, but gradually the spotters become suspicious of repetitive activity, the odd person who seems to be snooping on them - and then, well all hell breaks loose leaving them facing an existential thr…

r96sk

April 25, 2025

8/10

<em>'Warfare'</em> ends up as expected: bleak and miserable. The sound design is truly outstanding, such fine work ensures that you hear and feel everything. The plot being told in real time makes it rather captivating too, the tone of either trepidation or torment is omnipresent. Well, I say omnipresent, that's taking out the opening scene. I was not expecting that! Very fun though and a good way to show a snapshot of the camaraderie. It shouldn't work because it's not like it matches the re…

"Warfare" is as simple a statement as you can get, on the reality of conflict. Warfare can be dull, even bureaucratic, with its own language, spoken over radio in codes. Equally, its frenetic, violent and horribly visceral. We see all of these aspects of war, in this film. I'll admit its depressing, sad, underlining in blood, the wastefulness of war. Mind you, that's what war is. Not heroic, symphonic, grandiose. Suffice to say, I liked this film. Its unpretentious and makes you quest…

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://movieswetextedabout.com/warfare-movie-review-garland-and-mendoza-strip-the-genre-to-its-rawest-form/ "Warfare is a film you admire more than you enjoy. Its anti-narrative structure, slow pacing, and lack of strong central figures make it difficult to revisit - but impossible to forget. It's a remarkable display of technical realism, a brutally honest recreation of a war zone, and a testament to cinema's power when it refuses to play by the rules. Alex Gar…

Difficult to not notice a typical Netflix/Prime budget canvas. forces you to admit all happening in one room one street or just in your imaginations. Lost patient, tried fast forward several times but nothing really changes or happens. Seems like all high rating are for the real incident and to real soldiers. Sorry this is the review of a movie like any other movie.

They say “War is hell,” and, without a doubt, there’s plenty of evidence to back up that contention. But rarely, if ever, does anyone say that “War is boring,” although that can certainly be said about its depiction in this latest offering from writer-directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza. This fact-based account tells the story of a Navy SEAL unit charged with providing support for a US Marine operation in Ramadi during the Iraq War in 2006. Filmed in real time, the picture seeks to take viewe…

Dr_Nostromo

February 14, 2026

7/10

71/100 An extremely realistic and ofttimes painful depiction of warfare mostly contained to a single setting as a group of navy seals are under siege in Ramadi, Iraq. Based on the memories of those that experienced it first-hand, it's violent, brutal and, although the events take place in real time, they were able to capture that feeling that the soldiers felt the siege going on for hours instead of only 90 mins. No theatrics, no explanation as to why they're there, no personal info about the…