The new film Civil War may want to be edgy, timely, even thoughtful, but it has nothing to offer beyond surface-level thrills, which makes its grisly portrayal of war feel more like a romanticization of the worst in humans than a warning against it.
Alex Garland’s latest (and potentially last) directorial effort has garnered a lot of attention for its explicitly political premise: imagining a near-future America that has become embroiled in a civil war. During a time when America is divided enough that a number of people are predicting—and in some cases seemingly calling for—a new American civil war, you can understand the interest.
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