THE BITE OF WAR DOGS IS WORSE THAN ITSBARK
Based on an article in Rolling Stone, War Dogs explains how millions have been made in the arms trade in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere. When Dick Cheney arranged for no-bid contractor friends to cash in on both wars, there was an outcry. Accordingly, the Defense Department solicited thousands of bids on the Internet for all types of supplies from bullets to tanks. Somehow Efraim Diveroli (played by Jonah Hill) found out that almost anyone could make millions, and soon he asked his brother David Packouz (Miles Teller) to give up his job as masseur to join him in Miami. Thanks to director Todd Phillips, the film then shows how the business works, gets complicated and even dangerous, along with doublecrossing and many shady characters. When they find Chinese bullets in an Albanian warehouse, however, they risk arrest for supplying the federal government with proscribed merchandise, and the FBI gets hot on their trail. The Political Film Society, accordingly, has nominated War Dogs as best film exposé of 2016. MH