The trailer makes W.T.F. Look like a comedy, starring Tina Fey, but the trailer features every light moment in this otherwise fairly dark and gritty war drama.
Fey plays a wannabe reporter who is stuck writing copy in a Cleveland TV station. When offered the opportunity, in 2002, to go to Afghanistan as an embedded reporter she jumps at the opportunity.
Only to be faced with sexism, danger, hardship, embittered colleagues... Surprisingly, she finds she loves the adrenaline rush. She gets a couple of pretty dramatic stories, and becomes something of a star reporter. The story skips ahead through 2003, 2004, 2005 and her editor back home is no longer running her stories. The reporting is still good, but nobody cares about the war in Afghanistan anymore. It's "old news."
Fey become disillusioned. She contemplates coming home. But when tempted with a big story, she signs up for a dangerous rendezvous and gets the story -- in the process turning her back on her only friend in the corps.
Like I say, bittersweet. Gritty. Not a comedy. It was well written, entirely believable, good camerawork, good editing. Not a great movie but a decent afternoon spent out of the rain.
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