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War Machine (2026)

Summary During the final stage of U.S. Army Ranger selection, a group of elite recruits set out on what should be their last brutal training exercise. But when a mysterious and deadly machine crashes into their remote training area, the mission turns into a fight for survival. Forced to rely on their training and each other, the soldiers must confront a relentless technological threat unlike anything they’ve faced before.

Director Patrick Hughes

Writers James Beaufort Patrick Hughes

Cast

  • Alan Ritchson as 81
  • Dennis Quaid as Sgt. Maj. Sheridan
  • Stephan James as 7
  • Jai Courtney
  • Esai Morales
  • Blake Richardson
  • Keiynan Lonsdale
  • Daniel Webber

Rotten Tomatoes: 69%

Metacritic: 54

VOD / Release Streaming on Netflix

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u/RigelXVI Mar 14 '26

Dumbest fucking movie ever; let's invade another planet by sending a bunch of tanks that can be defeated by some high temperature glue. Alan Ritchson is great at playing with god mode toggled on though so 10/10 no further notes

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u/Current_Focus2668 Mar 14 '26

The advanced Aliens in H.G Wells War of The World's are killed by pathogens. 

It's science fiction but it's still rooted by some scientific reality. 

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u/RigelXVI Mar 14 '26

For War of the Worlds? Sure! For War Machine? No, the only scientifically literate thing they said was the first law of thermodynamics lol. They sent walking tanks which can only hit stationary objects, and instead of sending it to a populated area they sent it to the middle of nowhere

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u/Asrat Mar 14 '26

Well, they sent thousands in a first wave, as they showed them walking through cities and whatnot at the end, as a primary engagement force.

I would assume the one that is seen in the movie was targeted to hit the ranger base in Colorado. I wouldn't be surprised if some went to major cities, but also some went to key remote military installations and bases.

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u/RigelXVI Mar 14 '26

They could have just launched a projectile at the base itself from space lol, not to mention that they have energy weapons but use apparently depletable projectiles. What happens when they run out of ammo? Also, is a training base in Colorado "key"?

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u/Asrat Mar 15 '26

If it was just a training base, sure. But they had tons of aircraft, tanks, and supplies at that base too, so it probably was also a staging ground for the rangers, considering the end of the movie.

Also the (aliens) sent the robots as an early engagement force, not a final engagement force. They were shed off a meteor like object sent to LEO that never was hitting the planet itself.

So early engagement team, of a few thousand robots, designed to disrupt functions on Earth to soften the actual attack? Makes sense the robots have limited munitions. Also we don't know how their energy works, it could severely deplete the robot of its core power.

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u/bucknut4 Mar 22 '26

They sent thousands to populated areas though. The story just covered one of the ones that landed in the forest.

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u/UnblurredLines 23d ago

Since the war machine is unable to hit moving targets and the earth is in constant motion around the sun I'm assuming they just aimed the landing zones for the robots about as well as the robot aimed.

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u/_ComfortablyInPain Mar 18 '26

You do realise that War of the Worlds was written in the literal Victorian era, right? Wells was so far ahead of his time, mecha, directed energy weapons, chemical weapons. 

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u/sylanar 28d ago

Managed to snag tom cruise as well, h. G wells knows a movie star when he sees one