Tango foxtrot10/18/2023 ![]() Every one of the USA’s armed conflicts gets its own general style and aesthetic in its motion pictures. ![]() Content-wise there is not anything particularly original about it. ![]() The film is adapted from a memoir by real-life journalist Kim Barker, The Taliban Shuffle, and is directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. Once there she becomes addicted to the adrenalin rush of war reporting, while befriending a reporter from a rival network (Margot Robbie) and being seduced by a Scottish freelance photographer (Martin Freeman). It is not exceptional, but it absolutely deserved a better reaction that the one it got.įey plays Kim Baker, a New York-based television journalist who takes up an open offer by her employer to move to Kabul and report on the US military invasion of Afghanistan. This is a pity, since if taken on its own merits Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a reasonably entertaining movie. That is a fairly long distance from what the market was promised hence, I strongly suspect, their general abandonment of the film in theatres. The actual film is hardly a comedy at all, of course, and simply employs satirical elements to express its cynicism at what an aimless and mediocre the American invasion of Afghanistan was. ![]() Whiskey Tango Foxtrot was a box office flop in 2016, promoted widely as a laugh-out-loud comedy starring Tina Fey ( 30 Rock) and Margot Robbie ( I, Tonya) but generating complete disinterest among audiences and disappointment among critics. ![]()
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