Film: Warfare
Cast: D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Joseph Quinn, Charles Melton, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Noah Centineo, Taylor John Smith
Director: Ray Mendoza, Alex Garland
Rating: 4/5
Runtime: 95 min.

This film is a real-time account of a 2006 mission in Ramadi, Iraq, where a U.S. sniper unit negotiates Al Qaeda insurgency. The drama featuring Joseph Quinn, Kit Connor, Charles Melton, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis and Kit Connor and D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai,  plunges the audience into a hellish combat zone which gets on your nerves right from the beginning.

The opening scene is one of levity. We see a low-res video of a statuesque blonde in a skimpy leotard leading a group through a workout routine and the platoon of Navy SEALS clustered around the screen, loudly whooping, shouting and cheering her on. But that’s as far as the levity goes. The rest of the 90 odd minutes is a severe jolt to the senses.