Alex Garland's best directorial effort is widely considered to be his smash-hit sci-fi indie, Ex Machina, which catapulted Alicia Vikander and Oscar Isaac to stardom.
However, there's starting to be a growing consensus among film critics that Civil War tops it.
A24 has dropped a final trailer for the pic, which you can check out below.
Civil War is set in a near-future America that has broken apart into several groups which are engaged in a civil war.
Days from now, the capital of the Western Forces, an armed coalition of states that are insurgent against the federal authority, will be forced to submit.
With a small group of journalists, including a young, aspiring photographer named Jessie (Cailee Spaeny), whom she reluctantly takes on the role of mentor, Lee (Kirsten Dunst), a hardened combat photographer who has documented atrocities and destabilization around the world, travels to the White House in the hopes of securing a final interview with the president (Nick Offerman).
“This movie feels like a fable to me — like a cautionary fable of what happens when people don’t communicate with each other,” Dunst shared. “When nobody listens to each other, when you silence journalists, when we lose a shared truth."
Garland also added, "The famous phrase, if you forget history, you're doomed to repeat it — it's important to understand that nobody is immune. No country is immune from that. Because it's nothing to do with countries, it's to do with people.”
Garland continued by saying that he intended Civil War to be a resolutely anti-war movie, one in which the suspense keeps you on the edge of your seat but is ultimately driven by raw horror as opposed to sensationalized thrills.
The film currently has a 91% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 85 reviews, with an average score of 7.8 out of 10. According to boxofficepro.com, the film is tracking for a domestic opening in the range of $20-$30 million and has a chance to upset Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire as the #1 film in America this weekend.
Most reviewers are very high on Garland's potential swan song as a director. If you were on the fence, are the high reviews enough to sway you to see the film during its opening weekend? Let us know in the comment section below.
ABOUT CIVIL WAR: From filmmaker Alex Garland comes a journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House.