In early 2015, we closed a partnership deal to invest in New Regency’s three enthralling titles, namely The Revenant, Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell, marking the first investment of a Taiwanese company in major Hollywood productions. Both investments generated considerable box office performance in Taiwan and China respectively. In the same year, we invested in the locally produced film, Paradise in Service and co-produced 20 Once Again with CJ Entertainment for the Chinese market. Maybe in 20 years they can co-star in a Broadway revival of The Odd Couple.In 2014, in addition to distributing the movies CATCHPLAY loves, we embarked in earnest co-production and investment projects, venturing into content creation. Hardly inexperienced at playing belligerent, outrageous and offensive a-holes, Hill offers a definitive account of one here, to which Teller can only play the blander, if useful, second fiddle who has to try, and try again, to stand up to the gruff bully. But the combination of bluster and maybe even partial insanity in the former and optimistic gullibility in the latter combines with the outrageous situations they bring upon themselves to keep you warily fascinated, if not charmed. It’s not possible to claim that Efraim and David are charming or even good company, so irresponsible is the former and lacking in character is the latter. Whatever fates await these little sharks who decided to jump into the pool with the big sharks, no one can say they didn’t have it coming. Now ensconced in lavish digs filled out with a raft of employees, the boys head for a giant ammo Expo in Vegas - ”It’s like Comic-Con with grenades,” Efraim allows - where a mysterious gentleman (Bradley Cooper) informs of them of an enormous opportunity awaiting resourceful chaps like themselves: a Cold War era’s worth of ammo still sitting packaged and unused in Albanian warehouses, enough to lure ready buyers in Afghanistan to the tune of $300 million.Īs things unspool and unravel, Iraq looks like paradise compared to Albania, where the duplicity, craftiness and deceit of communism’s survivors quickly shows up the young Americans for the arrivistes they are.
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Call it beginners’ luck or a case of what you don’t know can’t hurt you, but the guys end up having to fly in a panic to Jordan, then accompany their cargo by night across 500 miles of desert to Baghdad as their laconic local driver assures them it’s a “very safe” trip - their chances of making it are 50-50.īut once they cash in, their hubris triggers predictably dire consequences. Pulling this off requires far more effort, ingenuity and sheer luck than the boys bargained for, just as it provides the film with its most eventful and suspenseful interlude. Efraim and David spend a lot of time scrolling down the official government website listing all the war-connected contracts on offer, and it’s the latter who nails a deal to deliver a huge supply of Berretas to U.S. military contracts to any and all comers (an actual decision taken in reaction to charges of government cronyism with Halliburton and other huge corporate war beneficiaries). All the same, the yarn hinges on their unbridled enthusiasm for a new administration initiative that opens up bidding for U.S. Perhaps as a sop to modern audiences, the script makes a big point out of having both guys say they don’t like George W.
But he does enjoy the man’s bottomless supply of drugs, is amused by his idol worship of Al Pacino’s Scarface and is impressed by the money coming in from his sale of some equipment to the CIA, so he willingly becomes Efraim’s tag-along accomplice when it seems the sky’s the limit. David, who has absolutely nothing going for him (except for an unaccountably beautiful girlfriend, played by Ana de Armas), isn’t exactly crazy about Efraim’s bluster and erratic behavior.
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