don not mistake war inc. for a sharply chiseled satire or a brainy comedy full of inside joke for news buff . it isn not . this be an old fashioned screwball comedy and with ridiculously coincidental plot twist and stock character ( give some depth in fun performance by john cusack and joan cusack and marisa tomei and hillary duff ) and a straightforward approach to the political content . you see and the filmmaker political point be thing nearly all of the country already know be true . yeah and we understand that the corporation profit off the war be corrupt and inept pig and the political leader in charge of it be even more inept buffoon and and american imperialism have never look crasser and more out of touch than it do right now but none of that be the point . here and all of that noise be the set that they lampoon sometimes in genius way a the backdrop for a silly romp and a john cusack character ( the hit man with a heart ) try to change his life with the help of the do gooder journalist who doesn not trust him ( tomei ) and the young middle eastern starlet who want to call off her marriage ( duff ) . cusack sister and joan and play his assistant with an almost cartoonishly enthusiastic quality . ben kingsley seem to me waste in his small part a a ruthless cia bos . that all and and it work . it simple fun and but if somehow you can not see reality and you think the war be go well and everyone involve with it be do a good job and there no corruption and people in the middle east wish our western culture would supplant theirs and then you might not find it a funny . for all the rest of u and it be a light comedy with a political edge .