Whiskey Tango Foxtrot review

If there's one word to describe Whiskey Tango Foxtrot it's astonishing!

Based on a True Story of Kim Barker. This film about a TV journalist Kim Baker, played by Tina Fey, makes some career changes by going out to cover the war in Afghanistan when the rest of the journalist that covered that war are covering the war in Iraq.  Only to gone for a few months, she stays a lot longer and tries to do stories that are interesting for news networks.

After doing pieces on the soldiers, like every other journalist, she sees the thrill of war and catches it on film. Filled with excitement, she wants to cover more of that action along with getting interviews from top officials played by Billy Bob Thornton and Afraid Molina.

She meets other journalist (Margot Robbie and Martin Freeman) that they party hard after a hard days work. Fey and Freeman are hilarious and show a lot of chemistry throughout the film.

It's when Baker finds out that her network isn't going to air her stories because of how no once cares, she tries to find the most dangerous stuff she can do, like filming into a men's only park rally.

Baker realizes that after losing her close friend because of her addiction to getting dangerous stories. Not only one of her friends but two from getting nearly blown up (Margot) to being kidnapped (Freeman). When Baker learns of the kidnapping, she pulls her strings to get information on his location.

Baker grows closer to Freeman's character, but decides to focus on her career and does so as a TV new anchor and finally gets her big break. The ending does give us an open to whether or no they do get together.

This was a well written film. The film balances out humor and serious drama. This isn't like Sisters or Date Night, this film shows nudity and gruesome scenes like the bombing scene which showed dead bodies, one man losing a leg and another one screaming.

Fey is brilliant and shows a wide range of dramatic and comedy in this film. Robbie and Freeman also play well rounded characters as well. And of course, I couldn't get enough of Thornton and Fey scenes.

Overall,  I give this film a 9/10.

You can catch Whiskey Tango Foxtrot in theaters now.