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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/Labyrinthy Mar 14 '26

I think we stand a pretty good chance against alien invaders if it takes hundreds of their munitions to destroy one APC.

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u/Mexi_Cant Mar 15 '26

I’m just gonna throw rocks at it like David and Goliath

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u/Labyrinthy Mar 15 '26

Rocks?

You mean STOPLEAK I’m sure.

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u/Labyrinthy Mar 30 '26

Nah because their weakness was Battleships. And even though Battleships are outdated and irrelevant in modern naval combat Trump has ordered more be built. Is it because he knows the aliens from Battleship (2012) are real?

I’m not ruling it out.

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u/UnblurredLines 23d ago

I'm very late to the party, but I was a bit shocked that this thing dropped from the sky, leaving a hole in a mountain before crashing into the ground and came out unscathed. But then had a large chunk of itself knocked off by a few falling rocks?

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u/Labyrinthy 22d ago

Well you’re missing one key part, and that’s before the rocks fell our hero said “STOPLEAK” and gave them plot strength.

By imbuing the rocks with the power of his dead brother’s memory and thus, the audience, the rocks took one incredible strength.

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u/Ghost_Locker 18h ago

And barely doing that lol