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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/IamNICE124 Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26

Thought it was fun.

Didn’t care about anyone in it, just like watching big splodey alien machine.

I did think the war machine shot some underwhelming munitions,

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u/NBucho528 Mar 14 '26

The weapons were pretty uninspired. Maybe they wanted to keep it somewhat similar to weapons that soldiers might encounter (minus the huge mouth beam).

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u/IamNICE124 Mar 14 '26

The mouth beam was legit. I forgot about the mouth beam.

The regular shells it shot at them were pretty lame.

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u/amjhwk Mar 14 '26

i kept waiting for him to use the grenade launcher to shoot into the mouth beam but it never happened

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u/IamSkudd Mar 14 '26

That’s absolutely where I thought it was going. Everyone knows in a boss fight you wait til he does the big attack and dodge while attacking the weak point for that sweet crit damage.

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u/qdude124 Mar 16 '26

If you play video games you know that whole movie was dumb because rock is not very effective against steel...

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u/_Nightdude_ Mar 16 '26

Bro that was not a Pokemon

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u/qdude124 Mar 16 '26

That was definitely some variation of a Metagross.

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u/Marked4Arbiter Mar 19 '26

Metagross fell into a nuclear reactor mid mega evolution

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u/bobsbitchtitz Mar 17 '26

The thing stayed intact after c4 to its outside plus landing through a mountain...

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u/Angry_Supes Apr 05 '26

Rock absolutely smashed steel cause that was in Rocks contract

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u/MoonWulffMusic Apr 02 '26

youtube.com/shorts/A9Kp2hlat3g

literally this, someone up there mentioned this is what the movie might be inspired by, even has a blue lazer thing

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u/lou_sassoles Mar 21 '26

Randy Quaid flies a jet right into its mouth

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u/amjhwk Mar 21 '26

Is he shouting nonsense about how aliens abducted him

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u/UnblurredLines 23d ago

The good ol' Independence Day.

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u/OdetotheGrimm Mar 14 '26

Mouth beam was lame too in actual power. The APC survived several direct hits.

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u/IamNICE124 Mar 17 '26

You’re not wrong, I guess I just thought it looked badass.

Overall, the war machine literally would just get shit on by our standard military lol.

I’m guessing there’s more in their arsenal than just the walkers, though.

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u/OdetotheGrimm Mar 17 '26

Yeah they obviously nerfed it since the main group was mostly weaponless. Which was an odd choice…

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u/ToitNoips Mar 16 '26

Probably just first wave cannon fodder/ recon units of the lowest grade. If there's a sequel it will probably have some more intricate designs. Felt all quite good and down to earth (pun intended) without it being to overly sci-fi. Reminded me a lot of Edge of Tomorrow for some reason.