‘Warfare’ Review: Alex Garland Co-Directs (With an Iraq War Veteran) a Film That Purports to Show Us What War Is Really Like. But Has He Just Left Out the Story?

“Warfare” presents itself as an immersive experience, and I think it will be lauded for being an immersive experience. To me, though, it was not. Watching it, I felt involved and detached at the same time. The film strips itself of most of the active elements that immerse us in a war movie — like, for instance, treating the soldiers as fully colored-in characters.