Tropic Thunder 4K 2008 Ultra HD 2160p

In the real jungle is shooting a super blockbuster with big stars, among them: a cool action hero, a master of toilet humor, a black rapper Alpa Chino and the winner of all the movie awards, who dyed his skin black especially for the movie. When the producers ran out of money and filming was stopped - the actors were not told about this. So with blanks they easily get into an unequal fight with real cutthroat gangsters armed to the teeth...

Tropic Thunder 4K Review
Probably only in a dozing ticket-taker's nightmare could Ben Stiller and Ethan Coen have dreamt of working together. It didn't - Soldiers of Misfortune /Tropic Thunder/ (2008), written by Stiller and the full namesake of Ethan Coen, the series' screenwriter, is being released with Justin Theroux. However, even though Cohen is the wrong guy, the film unexpectedly proves that there is not much in common between "Sample Male" /Zoolander/ (2001) and "Barton Fink" /Barton Fink/ (1991).

The adaptation of the Vietnam War bestseller "Tropic Thunder" is going hard. A dumb comedy star (Jack Black), a struggling action king (Ben Stiller) and an Oscar-winning actor (Downey Jr.) in the lead roles have no way of agreeing, an explosive technician blows up the jungle, prompting protests from environmentalists. The director (Steve Coogan) is throwing a fit, already feeling as if a ferocious producer is going to scalp him, when the author of the book (Nick Nolte), a formidable armless veteran, suggests throwing the actors into the wild jungle, stuffing the forest with hidden cameras and making a reality TV movie in these combat conditions. Once they find themselves in the jungle, the actors start shooting, unaware that a land mine from the war has changed everything for real: the forest and heavily armed gangs of drug dealers, resentful of trespassing on their property.

The fake trailers for the movies that starred Soldiers of Failure are already a reason to head to the movie theater, enough of the line from Downey Jr.'s video, "Lord forgive me for I am ... a naughty boy." Downey himself, who this year was not a joke with his "Iron Man" (2008), plays a five-time Oscar winner, who for the role in the movie went to the plastic surgery and changed his clothes into a black man. And by golly, when this camouflage-clad company of clowns is dragged through the jungle to Run Through the Jungle, it is even better than Platoon (1986). Because there are at least five good movies about Vietnam, Stiller's Coen-esque film is the only one so far.

As a matter of fact, Soldiers of Failure is a Barton Fink of the grandest degree of lewdness. Everything here turns out to be phony, silliness and idiocy, the jungle bandits go crazy over an idiotic Hollywood movie, the actors are feisty, weird and endlessly touching creatures, Hollywood is the devil's property and the audience's laughter is born easy and free because the world, as the Coens always do, is clearly held together by pegs and tape and threatens to fall apart at any moment, and it is really funny.

But all of this would just be humor jokes when it wasn't for the small role of the producer running the whole mess from Los Angeles. An infernal monster, fit for all Coen's villains, the king of the Hollywood jungle dances the victory dance at the end, and it's the funniest and creepiest thing in the film (it's worth noting here that you'd better linger while the credits roll - surprises are not particularly attentive grunts).
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"Soldiers of Failure" has already been attacked by people who saw it as an affront to the dignity of people with disabilities -- too many retarded jokes. We'll leave that fight to the lawyers, and note that Soldiers of Failure, arguably the best comedy of the year, is also a kind of lawsuit against the absurdity of the world, the aggressiveness of good taste and the grandiose humbug called "cinema. But to whom is it to be sued?