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'War Inc.'

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This John Cusack-driven exercise in scorched-earth political comedy is neither as dark nor as timely as intended, and certainly not as funny: Written by Cusack, Mark Leyner and Jeremy Pikser, it takes place in the fictional Turaqistan, where corporate assassin Brand Hauser (Cusack) has come to kill the oil minister.

This gets him entangled with a beautiful journalist ( Marisa Tomei), a spoiled...

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