Review – Civil War

As a drama about combat photojournalism, this actually works reasonably well. The trouble is that it keeps raising questions that it refuses to answer. It’s difficult if not impossible to tell who’s fighting whom, let alone what they’re fighting about. That’s either a deliberate point about the irrationality of war or the incidental effect of not wanting to choose sides in the current and sadly all too real state of unrest in this country. In either event, the ambiguity proves distracting. Are the soldiers on one side more country-fied than the other? Is the President meant to seem Trump-ish? The guesswork detracts from what might otherwise have been a good job of storytelling. Mildly amusing