Todd Phillips’ excitable genuine-life tale of two twentysomething dudes keeps telling us how spoiled arms dealing is but how cool they areTodd Phillips’ smug bro adventure stars Jonah Hill and Miles Teller as two adorable twentysomething arms dealers having some pretty wild times in Miami and Fallujah. It puts an excitable spin on the true tale of David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli: young stoner dudepreneurs who got rich brokering minor arms deals to the US military and were finally busted for flogging dodgy Chinese ammo. (The film is based on a 2011 Rolling Stone article about their exploits.) With its generic hints of The Hangover (which Phillips directed) and the boiler-room machismo of The Wolf of Wall Street (which took Jonah Hill to the expansive league),this is a strangely tiresome film with tiny in the way of comedy, preoccupied with reassuring the audience of its savvy satirical credentials by perpetually telling us how amoral arms dealing is – but yet how funny and cool these particular arms dealers are. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com