The first reactions to Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s Warfare have hit social media, and the early consensus suggests the film is an intense, brutal and harrowing work that must be experienced in theaters.
Warfare is a real-time and immersive retelling of a battle during the 2006 Iraq War, and follows a team of Navy SEALs coming under heavy fire as they are trapped inside a house.
As well as co-directing the feature, Mendoza, an Iraq War veteran, also co-wrote the script for Warfare with Garland and the film largely based on Mendoza’s memories of the conflict. Warfare is Garland’s follow-up to the much-talked about 2024 release Civil War, that was A24‘s most expensive film ever to produce and also the studio’s second most successful release at the global box office after Oscar-winner Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Much like the equally realistic and harrowing Black Hawk Down (2001), Warfare has a large ensemble cast that includes a number of rising Hollywood stars including D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Taylor John Smith, Michael Gandolfini, Adain Bradley, Noah Centineo, Evan Holtzman, Henry Zaga, Joseph Quinn and Charles Melton.
Warfare is set to hit theaters on April 11.
Read on for some early social media reaction to press screenings of Warfare.
