Warfare review: Few US war films have come this close to acknowledging the true suffering of combat

Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza will surely have anticipated a volley of objections to their ruthless, distressing yet gripping treatment of a disastrous US engagement in the Iraq War. The role of the Navy Seals is not placed “in perspective”. We see the view from only one end of an M4A1 carbine.

Yet any such widening of viewpoint would risk betraying the project’s stark objective. Mendoza, who worked as military adviser on Garland’s Civil War, is, with his colleague, seeking to give some impression of his experiences during a brief, bloody sie...
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