Touches You

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

There is a delicate line between satire and demonstrating a brutal statement about a pointless war.All I know is, not once did I ever think 'This is Brad Pitt' that USUALLY only happens with Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino...McMahon really sums up some blind optimism - this movie had me reminding myself underneath any uniform, is a human being. Period.No temporary political ideology can rob us of our humanity that came down polished for hundreds of thousands of years - not some 300 year half baked end of day it's corporatism ANYHOO political ideology.The only thing missing from this - that could have made it a 10 would have been presence of Enron.For Enron played a great part in US occupation of Iraq. All goes back to Sugarland Texas when the Taleban was invited by now Chevron - if they were going to be a problem with the Enron planned Turkmenistan natural gas pipeline.Looks like they said they would be- and they did.Enron also just 'happened' to be the #1 campaign contributor to the Bush and Cheney 2000 campaign.Twelve Monkeys was a fun role for Brad Pitt no doubt but I think this is his best performance to date. Me? I would have liked see an Oscar for Pitt on this one.This movie can be watched many many times for some precious scenes.'Ya see - it's like raising a child - you need two parents''Woodward ? OH NO ''Steps to freedom - you familiar with the moon landing? 'I do so wonder how this movie might have come across had it been released in 2004. Let's all hope there won't need to be a sequel, but the way things are going in Afghanistan - there might need to be a sequel to this movie. Ugh

Television / Online Review: "War Machine" (2017)Another exclusive online distributed Netflix productions without a MPAA certificate (Motion Picture of Association of America) to call its own, directed by David Michod, known for a critically-acclaimed at International Festivals running "Animal Kingdom" (2010) starring Guy Pearce and Joel Edgerton, when here star-actor Brad Pitt transforms into a fictitious seemingly-artificial creation of leading character General McMahon, who gets assigned to bring re-spawning discipline and motivation into the U.S. military in Afghanistan stationed since 2001 in an in-affordable war on splintering Taliban insurgency, closing-in for further impossibilities of detection, when the black market opium trafficking gets left out completely as major thread to domestic security in a book adaptation also-written by director David Michod, who takes full responsibility for "war-on-terror" satire, which is not what is seems to be due to the strangely-granted European tour to Paris among other destinations to strength moral issues within four-star General McMahon's platoon section."War Machine" gets hardly into full throttle drive mode at any time. Even though the controversy of the Afghanistan invasion lingers through every single scene carried by actor Brad Pitt, who also being responsible for raising a massive 60 Million U.S. Dollar budget for an 115-Minute-Editorial that becomes dynamically insufficient with no major combat action beat or mesmerizing personal conflict scenes given, despite moments of tiresome privates sitting in front of the stand-making General in breeding hot rays of sun in desert fortress exteriors featuring some impressive U.S. military merchandise from sand-swarming arriving Black Hawks and Vietnam-War-approved Transporting Chinooks, first manufactured in 1961, all implanted unusual static as plainly-lit cinematography by Darius Wolski, known for Initial 3D Digital High-Resolution capturing for Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" in season 2011/2012, when supportive appearances by actress Tilda Swinton as questions-raising German Journalist, Meg Tilly becoming match-making General's wife Jeanie to Afghan president joyful-playing actor Ben Kingsley cannot save this strangely-received U.S. military-comedy of an artistic interpretation concerning ongoing war issues with respect to world-market-selling resources of inflicted human tragedy.FAZIT: Picture rejected (ineffective) © 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

An idiosyncratic general confronts opposition from enemies, allies, and bureaucrats while leading a massive rebuild operation in Afghanistan. Netflix's War Machine is a terrible and bland comedy that has Brad Pitt portraying a character that is simply made to praise "America" all around the globe and fails to deliver on all aspects also the narration was annoying and some cameos like from Ben Kingsley were so weird and terrible and the overall story that the film sells is not that interesting to be told. (0/10)

This is, so far, my favorite film of the year (i haven't watched Three Billboard, Call Me by Your Name, and all of those oscar-fancy film) as much as the film was trying to be political by criticizing the Afghanistan war, it's also about a character. A classically trained general in a modern war whose agenda is to win win win no matter what.a lot of critics and reviewers saying that the film didn't have anything to say rather than just to inform you that America lost the war. some even said that it's brutal how the film was disagreeing with the general. well, of course! because the film was about criticizing the general himself. he was portrayed as a good soldier, slighly narcisstic, yet unaware of the real situation and also a slightly lack of moral.there are also people that were criticizing Brad Pitt's over the top performance. well, it's a parody! the filmmaker was trying to portray him as "soldier" as possible and then exaggerate him. nobody complained about Daniel Day Lewis performance in There Will be Blood.all and all. it's a very good film with a lot of funny moments.