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Civil War review: Hot shot Kirsten Dunst sizzles as war-torn America burns, writes PETER HOSKIN
Alex Garland's Civil War is about an American civil war, though it's not in the sepia tones of the 19th century - it's in the lurid shades of the here and now.
Imagine if America got so polarised — between red and blue, between haves and have-nots, between faiths, creeds and colours — that people decided to storm the seats of government. They are the veteran hack Sammy (Stephen McKinley Henderson), the daredevil war correspondent Joel (Wagner Moura), the young wannabe photojournalist Jessie (Cailee Spaeny) and her idol — and, really, the film’s lead — the photogenius Lee (Kirsten Dunst). The tautest and most pulverising involves Dunst’s real-life husband, Jesse Plemons, as this film’s equivalent of Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now.
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