Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Tina Fey playing a journalist - who would've thought?  Lorne Michaels, that's who, who made her famous on Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live, is also the producer here.  It's kind of a middle age, Walter Mitty fantasy, about a woman who has a existential crisis and heads around the world for some excitement.   She finds it in the 2003-2006 war in Afghanistan.  Eat Pray Love meets George W. Bush's America.

It's an interesting recent history lesson and 2003 never seemed so far away.  Life in the Kabul-bubble is not all bad for a lot of the movie is like a grownup college movie - the partying, the dorm sex, the drinking and smoking.  But real life sneaks in with attacks, injuries and death of soldiers and civilians alike.

The war cinematography was very good, and the US Air Force participated in a lot of the movie, although the Marine Corps is the star.  Decent supporting cast especially Margot Robbie.  But couldn't we find a real Afghan actor rather than use Alfred Molina?

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