Sir Sam Mendes’ 1917 and Sir Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk are easily the best British war films of recent years.
And now another joins their ranks from Iraq War vet Ray Mendoza and 28 Days Later’s Alex Garland, who co-wrote and directed Warfare.
Based on US Navy SEALs’ real-life Iraq War combat experiences during an explosive day in November 2006, the platoon’s ensemble cast is dominated by Brits from Joseph Quinn and Cosmo Jarvis to Will Poulter and Kit Connor.
The new 5 star thriller currently has 93 per cent positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and here are some of the review highlights.
The Hollywood Reporter
Garland is working in peak form and with dazzling technical command in what’s arguably his best film since his debut, Ex Machina.
Evening Standard
The sheer technical brilliance and strength of performances, cannot fail to connect when you take on the film on its own terms, as pure human experience in the most hellish of circumstances.
The Wrap
Perhaps the most effective way to convey that war is hell is to dump all the metaphors, story beats and shoehorned character development and just put the viewer in it, which this film accomplishes in a way very rarely seen in narrative cinema.
The Independent
Alex Garland has now constructed what could be called his trilogy of violence… Warfare, at least, is the most successful of the three, because its myopia is a crucial part of its structure.
IndieWire
Warfare is a film that wants to be felt more than interpreted, but it doesn’t make any sense to me as an invitation — only as a warning created from the wounds of a memory.
Entertainment Weekly
They won’t be showing this one at recruitment centers.
Variety
It scrapes every last bit of romantic glamour off the image of combat
Warfare is out in UK cinemas on Friday.