Diveroli has chutzpah, a distinctive high-pitched giggle, and a plan to get rich. Price-tags pop up on weapons and equipment as Packouz introduces the world's second oldest profession: war profiteering.Ī part-time masseur who's trying to get ahead by selling bed sheets in bulk, Packouz is delighted to encounter Diveroli, an old pal who just returned to Miami after being introduced to weapons reselling in L.A.
It's narrated by Teller (whose alter ego has a cameo as a retirement-home folksinger), and crowded with facts about military purchasing. War Dogs begins in The Big Short mode: flippant and cynical but eager to elucidate. The charming actress' presence dilutes the movie's dangerously high testosterone level, while her character's objections to her beau's activities help him see the light. Interlaced with the fact is much more fiction, notably the character of Packouz's Latin-accented lover (Ana de Armas). Chin blended Diveroli and Packouz's tale with episodes from an unproduced script about his misadventures in Iraq, a country the War Dogs mutts never visited. The film's most harrowing chapter is based on co-scripter Stephen Chin's 2004 trip to Baghdad to chronicle the exploits of two completely different young American wannabes. After all, War Dogs was directed and co-written by Todd Phillips, auteur of The Hangover series.
That doesn't mean everything in the movie really happened. Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz are the actual names of actual people, high-school weed-buddies who went from attending an Orthodox synagogue in Miami Beach to brokering surplus Cold War-era ammo in Albania.Īs depicted here, the ruthless Diveroli (Jonah Hill) and the impressionable Packouz (Miles Teller) are quite similar to the portrayals in Guy Lawson's 2011 Rolling Stone story, published soon after the two were busted for defrauding the U.S. Of course, scenarios like that don't play out in the real world.Įxcept that they do, according to War Dogs, an amusing if underachieving bad-boys farce based on the escapades of two twentysomething gunrunners. In such dudes-gone-wild comedies as Pineapple Express and The Hangover, guys get incredibly wasted, do phenomenally stupid stuff, stumble into spectacular trouble, and yet somehow emerge relatively unscathed.
Miles Teller and Jonah Hill play war profiteers in director Todd Phillips' War Dogs.
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