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''War, Inc.'' is a 2008 satire/BlackComedy about an ex-CIA assassin named Hauser played by John Cusack who works for the Halliburton-esque company Tamerlane. As the movie opens he's being sent on assignment to the recently "liberated" country of Turaqistan to kill an oil executive from a neighboring nation named Omar Sharif, because Sharif is a barrier to Tamerlane's interests. Hauser's cover is a producer of a trade show demonstrating the effectiveness of Tamerlane's campaign, which basically puts him in charge of everything PR-related, from reeling in leftist journalist Natalie Hagelhausen (Marisa Tomei), who Hauser has a crush on, to managing the wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (Hilary Duff), a slutty Central Asian popstar. And Hauser's much-buried conscience is starting to flare up again...
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* [[Affably Evil]]: Hauser, though he's more of a dark [[Anti
* [[A Handful for An Eye]]: Hauser blinds Walker by pouring hot sauce into his eyes.
* [[The Atoner]]: Hauser, after saving Natalie in a war zone.
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* [[Fun With Subtitles]]: Everything Omar Sharif says is subtitled, even though he's speaking perfectly comprehensible English
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Hauser, Marsha, Natalie and Omar Sharif know all too well what kind of [[Crapsack World]] they are currently inhabiting.
* [[G
* [[Jerkass]]: Uk-mi-fay and his entire posse.
* [[Knight Templar]]: Walken.
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