Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Film Review

Finished watching Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, and staring Tina Fey, Josh Charles, Christopher Abbott, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman and Alfred Molina. The film opens up with journalist Kim Baker (Tina Fey) being offered a job as a war correspondent in Afghanistan which she accepts to the dismay of her boyfriend Chris (Josh Charles) who meets with Kim at the airport after returning home from a flight. Once Kim lands in Afghanistan she meets with local fixer Fahim Ahmadzai (Christopher Abbott) who takes her to her new home where all of the international journalists live while they are on assignments in the country. Overall this was a great film as it shows how news journalists deal with working in a war torn country and how it affects both their personal and professional lives. There are some great character interactions and moments throughout the film from the friendships that Kim forms with fellow journalist Tanya Vanderpoel (Margot Robbie), photographer Iain MacKelpie (Martin Freeman) and government member Ali Massoud Sadiq (Alfred Molina) which are incredibly interesting especially with how each relationship between the characters changes over the course of the film thanks to the amount of development each character has and how that affects one another. The soundtrack of the film is great as it works extremely well by certain songs that tonally and lyrically matchup to what is going on in parts of the film. 8/10.