While impossible to avoid projecting contemporary polarisation and the upcoming election, the film's greatest strength is the hyper-realistic depiction of America at war and the nature of modern total war itself.
During the assault on The White House in the riveting climax to Alex Garland’s Civil War, soldiers fight in the narrow corridors of America’s sullied power. Automatic fire resonates and echoes as ex-presidents look on, too helpless to intervene, trapped by their portraits and constraints of a constitution they obeyed but others set ablaze, those
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