6.8 /10 1 Votes
57% Metacritic Narrated by Sean Penn Initial release 14 May 2007 (USA) Producer Loretta Alper | 8/10 IMDb Produced by Loretta Alper Edited by Andrew Killoy Budget 100,000 USD | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Directed by Loretta Alper, Jeremy Earp Music by Leigh Phillips, John Van Eps Release date May 14, 2007 (2007-05-14) Directors Loretta Alper, Jeremy Earp Music director John Van Eps, Leigh Phillips Cast Norman Solomon, George W Bush, Sean Penn, Lyndon B Johnson, Bill Clinton Similar Political movies, War movies, Documentaries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death is a 2007 American documentary film. The film is narrated by Sean Penn and is adapted from the book of the same name, authored by Norman Solomon.
Contents
Plot
The film attempts to expose how the American government over 50 years has tried to strum up war effort using the media as a tool. "War Made Easy gives special attention to parallels between the Vietnam war and the war in Iraq."
Reception
New York Times columnist Jeannette Catsoulis described War Made Easy as "cinematically inert if ultimately persuasive". V.A. Musetto of the New York Post criticized the film as "conventional and one-sided". Aaron Hillis wrote for The Village Voice that the film is "sobering, straightforward, and a bit drab, but... it's also an entirely nonpartisan endeavor". Variety critic Dennis Harvey credited "Solomon’s astute onscreen analysis" for driving the film.
Rotten Tomatoes rates War Made Easy 88% on the basis of 17 aggregated reviews, and Metacritic rates the film 57 based on 5 reviews.