Civil War

2024

Action / Adventure / Thriller / War

191
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 69% · 409 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 69% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 258897 258.9K

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Plot summary

In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.

Director

Alex Garland Photo
Alex Garland

Top cast

Jesse Plemons Photo
Jesse Plemons as Soldier
Kirsten Dunst Photo
Kirsten Dunst as Lee
Wagner Moura Photo
Wagner Moura as Joel
Cailee Spaeny Photo
Cailee Spaeny as Jessie
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ChukwudiO-84 9 / 10

Very Poignant - but know what you're in for

There tend to be two groups of people who dislike this movie:Those who were expecting a movie about war.Those who were expecting a movie about politics.This movie isn't about war or politics at all, it's an adventure story about a group of war photographers. Very little is ever discussed or explained about the war itself, how it started, nor the political affiliations of those involved. The story is mostly about the photographers and how the journey affects them as people.Through various misadventures the viewer begins to piece together a rough picture of how the conflict is going, but it's never really the focus of the story. If you go in expecting every question to be answered, you've missed the point of the movie. If you were bored by (or entirely ignored) the characters' conversations, and only paid attention when there was killing going on, you REALLY missed the point of the movie.Overall, I found this to be a very moving film, with compelling performances by all the leads and a superb script. This movie succeeds at what it sets out to accomplish, though what it accomplishes might not be to every viewer's taste.
Reviewed by alex_giblin 8 / 10

If you're focused on the why, you missed the point.

There are some tricky reviews here and they all have a few things in common. They're all stuck on the economical and social, if not geographical logistics of a union between Florida, Texas and California, and they're all written by Americans. As someone not connected to the States I can say I think their perspective is smeared. This movie isn't about how certain political alliances came together or why certain people engaged in conflict, testified to by the fact that you don't ever even learn the president's name let alone the political party. You might want more out of the movie asking how all this came to be and you may be asking in hope of gaining allegiance to one side of the conflict or the other. The fact is this movie is not About the Why, the How or any of that. This movie is a war documentary that happens to be placed in an environment that you are familiar with. And in that respect it is superb. The acting is excellent and as required, the cinematography is very very strong. It's well paced and well written and gives you everything it promises. I think Kirsten Dunst is not as good an actor as she thinks she is but that hardly tracks from the powerful collective performance of the four main cast. This film is about the visceral and unsettling reality of conflict, life and death, and it's brought to you in a familiar place not 10,000 miles away in a foreign land. A choice that makes the impact all the more real. Sure, doing this runs the risk of the film seeming gimmicky or like any other disaster film but I think it's side steps that with grace and deft. What you are left with his real drama, real moments, real lives and the brutality and human and inhumanity of war. Please just forget the question as to whether this could happen in this exact way and just appreciate the world in which it did.
Reviewed by kezman436 6 / 10

Underneath all the noise, it has nothing to say

The much - discussed scene featuring Jesse Plemons is a great microcosm of the major issues which plague 'Civil War'. Our characters are held at gunpoint in a nail - biting confrontation. The motives of the two soldiers are murky at first, but it's gradually revealed that they're both massive bigots, and shoot dead two characters of colour in cold blood. The quiet, slow - burn tension of the scene instantly dissipates, escalating into a literally incomprehensible shouting match, before a van (which they should've heard coming) barges in, hitting and incapacitating the two foes, giving our characters a way out. Almost literally as subtle as a truck driving through the script. Nothing more is revealed about the two soldiers.A harrowing scene with no answers and no sense of closure, just like the entire movie. 'Civil War' is a film with nothing to say. Its only interest is in beating your over the head with a series of atrocities, which escalate in the final act, like the scene's ending. The film was on the radar of cinephiles for a while before release, and many speculated that it might be controversial, portraying a war - torn America during a divisive election year. Alex Garland stated in an interview that the film wasn't political, which I think should've been seen as a massive red flag. It's not remotely interested in exploring the underlying causes of division and conflict, or the policy positions which forced America to turn against itself in this universe.Why do I need to see so many horrors? You've already showed me 5 war crimes / cold - blooded executions. I don't need to see 20 more. This is the only card which the film has to play. There's no optimism. No hope or lessons for the future. No answers. It's a downwards spiral all the way to the end.You know what would've made for a more interesting resolution to the Jesse Plemons scene? How do you talk your way out of this situation? How do you reason with someone like that? This is the question that could actually have a helpful application to our real - world divisions; you can't resolve disagreements by hitting people with vans.I would've preferred to see a prequel, which explores the beginning of the war, and the specific issues and ideologies which split the nation. A more ideas - driven film, which has something to say about how we can de - escalate and avoid division.
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