Not since Saving Private Ryanhave we seen a war film as intense and bone-rattling as the exceptionally visceral Warfare. Committed to presenting the inescapability of modern war as honestly as possible, it shirks all the conventions of classic Hollywood war movies to an uncomfortable degree. That’s due largely in part to how, rather than moving between bombastic setpieces, the film forces the audience to wallow in the devastating impact of one big surprise that would be a footnote in any war film from 60 years ago. One such instance of that is the huge IED explosion that becomes the central plot point of the story, and by the accounts of those involved in the production, it fully lived up to the reality of what the real soldiers lived through.
