Is Warfare the most realistic war film ever made?

Alex Garland and Veteran Ray Mendoza on the ‘Emotional’ Making of ‘Warfare’

The take was too perfect. Ray Mendoza, the first-time director of Warfare, was watching D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai drag the limp, unconscious body of Cosmo Jarvis away from the wreckage of a massive explosion. Smoke, gunfire, screaming everywhere. And then there was the noise erupting from Woon-A-Tai as he struggled to pull Jarvis to safety — exactly how Mendoza remembered it from when he was a Navy SEAL, dragging the limp, unconscious body of Elliot …

Is Warfare the most realistic war film ever made?

In Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s brutal and immersive new film, memory informs the events that take place in real time to a unit of soldiers in IraqWarfare, Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s assiduous new film on a single episode of the American war in Iraq, opens with a title card typical to a war picture: date, location, barebones summary – 11 November 2006, in Ramadi, Iraq. Navy Seal team alpha one is supporting marines in insurgents’ territory…