That leads to the question of “Does Tina Fey have range?” and I’m not sure if she does. It’s like everyone is afraid to have an unlikable character be the lead, so they rest on Fey’s charm when instead they should have given her the chance to be somewhat loathsome. She’s selfish, but not in a compelling way.
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But when it’s time for the character to get emotional or feel betrayed, the movie attempts to draw from a shallow well because Kim isn’t a particularly interesting character. If it’s time for Robert Carlock’s script to have Kim act like 30 Rock’s Liz Lemon in the desert, then there’s no problem tossing out some zingers. The movie never makes up its mind what it wants to be, so it just chases the nearest emotion it can grab without ever earning it. A couple of faceless security guards might get blown up, but the horrors and complexities of war are outside the bounds of Whiskey and directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa aren’t taking a Jarhead approach where they show the malaise of war. That’s a worthwhile story (I like The Hurt Locker), but WTF (a title that is too clever by half) lacks the temerity to go to really scary places. Partway through the film, we get a labored metaphor from Kim’s interpreter Fahim ( Christopher Abbott giving a great performance that’s undercut by a whitewashed role) about drug addiction and how Kim is just seeking to get a bigger high.
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