Coming off Civil War‘s success, Alex Garland partners with Ray Mendoza on Warfare for a tense 90 minutes of hell based on the memories of veterans from a 2006 mission in Iraq. Mendoza takes his own experience as a veteran and the combined memory of the men who fought with him to craft the story. Unfolding in real-time, Warfare doesn’t give us or the characters more than a few seconds to breathe. Many movies brand themselves as the singularly accurate and gruesome depiction of what war is really like, and though Warfare isn’t perfect, it’s committed to playing the part.
