War Machine And Endings

By on June 26, 2026

Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about War Machine, starring Reacher’s Alan Ritchson, and it WILL contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this military movie with a dash of alien invasion, you might wish to skip this post.

The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I watched War Machine, a military movie with a little bit of alien invasion. We wouldn’t watch it again but it WAS entertaining.

One of the things I really liked about the movie is

it didn’t wrap up everything at the end.

The aliens Alan Ritchson’s character was facing were defeated (as is expected in one of these movies). ALL of the aliens weren’t defeated. The war is definitely not over.

Which makes sense.

No species would send all of their warriors into a first battle with an unknown enemy. And a species that has traveled through space has likely encountered a LOT of surprises, things they haven’t expected. They wouldn’t assume an easy victory.

I was happy with the temporary ending.

We, storytellers, don’t have to solve all of the world’s problems in one story. We can end stories on a small satisfying victory.

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