Amid a lot of patriotic rah-rah, predictable writing, and subpar acting, the Netflix movie War Machine manages to convey at least one interesting point about America's bloated military budget.
Director Patrick Hughes' film stars Alan Ritchson as an Army staff sergeant who watches his brother get killed in action in Afghanistan. The death inspires Ritchson's character to honor a pact he made with his brother and become an Army Ranger himself.
