Civil War is the sort of movie that people are going to read a lot into, especially right now that we've got another election year underway with Donald Trump attempting to regain the power he lost during the 2020 election. Due to that, a lot of folks are going into this movie thinking they already know what it is and what it's trying to say, and they're going to come out of it thinking it says little and means less. That's because, while Civil War certainly is a movie about Trump and his impact on the United States, writer/director Alex Garland isn't the sort of filmmaker who's going to make it that easy for you.
Civil War opens by focusing on the unnamed president of the United States, played by Nick Offerman, as he's rehearsing lines from a speech, claiming that his government is close to quashing the secessionist revolt by a pair of major factions. He drops a major Trumpism during this bit, saying that people are already calling his victory the greatest triumph in the history of military campaigns.
It doesn't take long for the film to establish how full of crap this guy is--secessionist military forces are staging in Charlottesville, Virginia, preparing to move on Washington and end the war. And we experience the war's final days through the eyes of a group of war correspondents (Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson) and a young tagalong (Cailee Spaeny) who are trying to get from New York City to Charlottesville before it all goes down. It's not normally a long trip, but they need to do a wide loop around Washington because of everything that's happening.
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