Alex Garland's brisk, intense Warfare depicts a single (true) day of operation in Iraq during the 2006 Battle of Ramadi in real-time. It reads like hyperrealistic military propaganda - following the standard model of ingratiating you with a platoon of young men, before subjecting them to horrific circumstances followed by a miraculous recovery. The text of the film contains this but beneath the surface is a demonstration of the fragility of even the elite Navy SEALs and (as war flicks often a...
