While I am sure it filled in some details here and there, after reading the story of the real-life war dogs, I was amazed at how accurate the movie seemed to be. If I could only pick one good thing to say about the movie, I would have to say it was how well it stuck to the overall story. Honestly, I knew nothing about the actual story until after the movie. Miles Teller, while he played his part well and offered some of the less scumbaggy moments, couldn’t help but fall into the shadow of Hill and his character. While no stranger to playing a stoner or a less than favorable character, Hill pulls of the role of scumbag well. However, when it comes to acting comparisons, Jonah Hill is the one that really shines in this movie. At most, I found myself invested in Packouz since it was fairly well established that he is basically just trying to give his family a better life. The lack of character building sort of makes the characters seem somewhat flat and hard to really invest in. Though there is a little bit of character building of Packouz in the beginning, we see very little, if any, of Diveroli. However, I still found myself zoning out at times waiting for more interesting parts to happen. The movie takes a while to get started and has some slow parts throughout which Phillips and the writers attempted to be make up by sprinkling some comic relief throughout. Soon the two land the infamous $300 million deal and we see where the whole thing takes a turn for the worst. This leads into a montage of Diveroli training him on how to score the contracts. Soon Diveroli makes the pitch to Packouz to join AEY, Inc., who eventually agrees. While Diveroli tells Packouz what he does, it isn’t really brought into full light until Diveroli pulls an automatic gun out of his trunk on some drug dealers for shorting him on weed. Diveroli is introduced at a mutual friend’s funeral and the two soon slip right back into their childhood friendship. We see Packouz’s life as a massage therapist and how he wants to do right by his family. Starring Jonah Hill as Efraim Diveroli and Miles Teller as David Packouz, War Dogs picks up in 2005 after Diveroli has already started the business. The movie War Dogs, directed by Todd Phillips, tells this unbelievably true story of two stoner friends to wind up scoring a $300 million contract with the U.S. By 2006, the pair had won 149 weapons contracts worth $10.5 million. In 2005, Diveroli brought on his friend, 23-year-old David Packouz, who was a massage therapist at the time. While the company was registered as a printing business, Diveroli used it as an arms company selling weapons to the US Government as well as others around the world. In 2001, 16-year-old Efraim Diveroli bought a shell company from his father called AEY, Inc.
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