But the script also comes around to issues of trust, some between David and his wife, from whom he’s kept his sorta legal business ventures a secret, and between David and Efraim, after a third party, Henry Girard (Bradley Cooper), a shady fellow who’s known as “a legend among arms dealers” enters the scene with talk of the biggest government contract they can imagine.Īmong the fast-moving film’s many pleasures are the chemistry between Teller and Hill the way things can be going so well, then switch to going really wrong so quickly and the integration of some very cool music choices on the soundtrack. army captain in Baghdad results in David and Efraim hightailing it over to the Middle East, then having to get together with “the best smuggler in Jordan.” That all leads to some of the film’s craziest, action-packed scenes. But soon they’re working together, with Efraim in charge, familiar with all of the ropes, and David proving to be a fast learner in manners involving thinking on his feet.Ī problem with a shipment of Beretta handguns for a U.S. Efraim is a fast-talking, smooth operator with a short fuse of a temper David is a mild-mannered lost soul who is comparatively levelheaded. It’s never made clear why these guys ever got along. Well, sheets aren’t going to make David any money, so it’s a good thing that his old pal Efraim (Jonah Hill) has just moved back to town after an extended stay in California where, he brags, he made good money by “re-selling guns on the Internet.” Now he’s in Miami to set up a new and bigger arms-dealing shop, searching out ways to bid on overlooked government contracts that will allow him to sell guns and other war-related equipment to the American military. (Trivia fans: The singer is the real David Packouz in cameo mode.) That’s twisted (and it made me laugh out loud).
One of the film’s funniest sequences happens in one of those places, as a folkie with a guitar sits in a rec room, crooning an acoustic version of “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” to an inattentive crowd. His newest scheme involves buying up expensive bed sheets, then trying to sell them to residents of nursing homes. Then it’s time for introductions: David (Miles Teller) is working, unhappily, as a masseur, wondering what to do with his life, and keeps looking for shortcuts to help him and his wife (Ana de Armas) get by. There’s an unnecessary prologue, featuring a scene that will pop up later in the film, and a dazzling visual display concerning how and why people are attracted to international arms dealing - yup, our boys are War Dogs, guys who make money off war without stepping on a battlefield. Those guys were David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, pals in junior high school who had gone their separate ways, partially because they had nothing in common with each other beyond their desire to smoke dope and party on. military, lots of guns and ammo that would eventually get into the hands of Afghan rebels, and the kinds of misfortunes that pop up when things balance somewhere along the edge of what’s legal and what’s illegal. The real events that became the Rolling Stones piece, then a book, and now the film “War Dogs” happened in the mid-2000s, when a couple of 20-something guys in Miami pulled off a business deal involving the U.S. well, that’s where the opposites really loom large.
It features two main characters that are. It’s a serious, tension-filled drama that’s at times, laugh-out-loud funny. It’s a “based-on-fact” story that’s been highly fictionalized. Here’s a film that gets into the idea of opposites attracting.
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