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If you can find humor in casual racism, drunk driving and people being gored by marauding buffalo, this may be the film for you.

You could make a film based on the achievement of almost anyone at the Invictus Games and you would be making Vinny's story

It's not war with an aggressor. It's war within.

As a snapshot of the influence parents bring to bear on their offspring it lacks engagement for the audience and takes the attitude that everyone watching should be enrapt by the self-importance Penn brings to bear.

With the weight of the film on his shoulders - and feet - Wormald doesn't let it down.

Half way through you ask yourself, why am I watching this film?

The issue is that if you strip out the elevated craft and A-list performances, what is left is the sort of bread-and-butter plot arc Cagney & Lacey used to rely on back in the day.

In short: lad fantasy.

The acting is good - particularly from Eckhart and Teller - but director John Cameron Mitchell never quite finds a way to reach beyond the boundaries of its original stage work.

Cruise, doing many of his own stunts, owns the territory with stellar charisma.

So while War Dogs includes elements of comedy, reviews describing it as “hilarious”, or pigeon-holing it as such are misleading.

The film takes on a masterful intesity as mental health as well as music begins to be at stake.