The trouble with this satirical take US involvement in Iraq, penned by Mark Leyner, John Cusack and Jeremy Pikser, is that the real thing is equally absurd and only marginally less funny.
Freelance assassin Brand Hauser (Cusack, playing a variation on his character in GROSSE POINTE BLANK) is the disillusioned husk of world-class killing machine, getting by on his still-formidable ability skills and hiding behind a practiced line of ironic banter. Contracted by the former Vice President of the United States and current head of international conglomerate Tamerlane (Dan Aykroyd) to assassinate oil baron Omar Sharif (Lyubomir Neikov), Hauser dives headfirst int...
Released:
2008
Rated:
R
Length:
106 mins