Spoiler-Free Warfare Review

Popcorn for Breakfast · Apr 11, 2025 · 39m

With some movie genres, you feel like you know exactly what you’re going to get before you even see the movie. For many years, the war movie genre has fit that mold. For better or worse, when you walk into a war movie you expect a triumphant score, violence and gore, (sometimes forced) dialogue to build the appearance of camaraderie, sappy backstories to raise the stakes, etc.

But occasionally, a genre film comes along that attempts to break the mold and shift the paradigm on to expect from its genre. Warfare attempts exactly that. Written based solely on the memories of the real-life navy…