Way of War (DVD, 2009)

i'am a war movie freak? but this movie dose not explain it plot? i brought it to see what kind of movie it was

I love the actor and the only reason for getting this one. However, I was very disappointed with the story, delivery and potrail of this movie.

David Wolfe (Gooding Jr.) is a highly trained killer, used by the U.S. government to infiltrate terrorist hot spots and take out-what, exactly? There's something much fouler at play here. You guessed it: it's a Sinister Government Conspiracy. Incensed at the betrayal by his country, Wolfe opts to uncover the truth but we all know how thorny that can be. Once he returns to D.C., his entire life implodes, his wife is killed, he's getting shot at on a daily basis and he can't stop frowning.

Your life would suck too if you were privy to the Sinister Government Conspiracy, and when he's finally pushed to far, Wolfe decides to fight back the only way he knows how:

Wow, the filmmakers must seriously have a grudge against military personnel. They were either kicked out of boot camp in humiliating fashion at one time or perhaps the dye from their Birkenstocks seeped into their brain somehow. Either way, the movie they churned out here does not look kindly on the ladies and gents that carry guns in the service of their nation.

In the world of Way of War, soldiers are mindless killing machines that take orders without reservation, even if that means killing innocent D.C. convenience store clerks. And if said convenience store clerk happens to fight back, his family, friends and possibly Golden Retriever will be murdered by the government. I must have missed that by-law in the Patriot Act.

Hey, if that's what floats their boat, then whatever; it's not my money (unless Low Budget Action Movie Budget Support was written into the stimulus bill). But the movie housing these points of view, simply put, sucks ass. It is soul-crushingly slow, sloppily written and devoid of any substantial action. Instead of gunplay or fist fighting (Wolfe enters an underground fighting match to get to one of the big cheeses, but we're denied a satisfying and much-needed bout), the "action" of Way of War is through dialogue, and poorly written dialogue at that. As far as I can tell, virtually all the writing is consumed with meaningless anecdotes, long-winded jokes designed to make an insightful statement about the nature of war, quotations from Sun Tzu and lines like "Without villains can there be heroes?" and "We gave up defending lady liberty a long time ago" and "Why is it we become like those we fight so hard to exterminate?" Ugh. By the way, those last two—SPOILER ALERT—are uttered by the Osama bin Laden knock-off who plays a pivotal role in the revelation of the conspiracy. Do you want to know what it is? OK, I'll tell you. You see, apparently the government manufactured al Qaeda and this bin Laden guy and the whole War on Terror so that we could have heroes or something. It's a real mind-blower of twist and something that may or may not have been culled from the fever swamps of tinfoil hat Internet forums.

I love action movies. I thought this would have been an action movie, but it was more like a suspense. There was very little action, and the movie reflected on the past too much. Not a good action movie at all.

I liked this movie because it has alot action in it. I dedcided to buy because I lik the main actor in this movie.