Review: Warfare is an relentless and visceral descent into combat madness

War It is not your typical war film. It is not about glory, these are the sacrifices that the soldiers make. It is the type of chaos that strips the soldiers with raw nerves.

From the beginning, I could say that this was different. What begins as a silent and almost boring reconnaissance mission in an unstoppable nightmare. You have lulled in the banal rhythms of a team in Seal who creates a shop in the house of a family, holding them under guard while using the structure to discover the enemy movement.

It is slow, tense and disturbing. You can feel that something is about to shoot and when the shit hits the fan, it is as if the film grabs you by the throat and refuses to let go.

The turning point is thin, only a line of dialogues on the loss of air support and therefore everything is revealed. Armed men captured the possibility of attacking. The team is blocked, their communications are working but the bureaucracy on the other side is paralyzed by protocols and indecision.

It is exasperating to see them try to navigate through this system even as the bullets challenge the walls. What struck me most was the way the war captures the weight of the reality of the situation as everything takes place within a single claustrophobic position, amplifying the nightmare despair.

Once the filming begins, the film turns into something almost unbearable, but in a positive sense. It is noisy, disordered and relentless. Sound design alone is a complete assault, l. It seems real.

The blood, the dust, scream them … every detail throws you in the middle. It is not stylized or romanticized. It is ugly and exhausting. You are not just watching this movie; You are surviving it.

The film was co-director from Alex Garland AND Ray MendozaOne of the co-director and a seal in the real life that lived the battle, extracted from his memories gives the entire film a rough authenticity. Mendoza’s personal story bleeds in every setting as he faces his experience.

And the cast sells every rhythm. D’Araone woon-a-tai, Will Poulter, Joseph QuinnAND Cosmo Jarvis Above all, distinguish themselves, rooting their characters in fear, instinct and in the painful routine of keeping alive.

I am a big fan of war movies and this has left a mark. Warfare is not trying to be the definitive film in Iraq war. This is not the war as a whole, it is a bad day that never seemed to end.

It is a small impact story told with intense precision and affects more hard than most of the epopes on a large scale. You move away by feeling destroyed and I imagine that it is exactly the point.