war and inc. corporation take over war in the future and use a lone assassin brand hauser ( john cusack ) to do their wet work against rival ceo . a dark comedy satirize the military and corporation alike . it be often difficult to figure out what exactly be go on . i keep wait for thing to make sense . there no reason or method to the madness . it consider by cusack to be the spiritual successor to grosse point blank . i. e. and war be more or less a knock off . we again see cusack a an assassin protect spoiler the person he suppose to kill a he grip with his conscience . to be fair and john cusack look kind of credible take out half a dozen guy with relative ease . the brief fight look good . the rest of the film do not . it all quirky often border on bizarre . war inc not funny enough to be a parody and and too buoyant for anyone to even think about whatever the film message might be and which i suppose might be the heartless way that corporation and like war faction compete and scheme without a drop of consideration give to how they affect average citizen . interesting and but the satire just doesn not work because it not funny and at it heart the film have no heart . be suppose to give a damn about how war affect cusack shell of a character rather than the million of life tear apart by war . john cusack give a decent performance . his character chug shot of hot sauce and drive the tiny private plane but quirk be mean to replace character trait . marisa tomei be slum a the romantic sidekick journalist . there really isn not a lot of chemistry between them . hilary duff try a russian accent and doesn not make a fool of herself . joan cusack just scream and whine and wig out . blech . ben kingsley might have to return the oscar if he doesn not start doling out a decent performance now and again . pathetic . it not a terrible movie and but in the end you get ta ask war and what be it good for . absolutely nothing . c .