I Declare War takes you into the heart of the city of Detroit where The Sinclair Family, The Demarco Family & the Khalil Family are each vying for control, power, money and the love of their families. Each family has a strong patriarch but being the leader of an organized crime family comes with a very high price. This is war and casualties will be your wife, your children or even yourself.
June 28, 2016
I Declare War proves potent from the simple fact these minors portray soldiers without censor.
August 30, 2013
I Declare War plays like a C-student's final exam essay on Lord of the Flies. Any interest in the game is overridden by the massive amounts of allegory lifted straight from Golding's novel.
August 30, 2013
[A] surreal, strangely effective look at childhood imagination.
September 26, 2013
This Canadian feature cleverly mixes archetypes from war films and coming-of-age movies, defamiliarizing both genres in the process.
August 29, 2013
The performances may be slightly uneven across the cast of a dozen distinct personalities (plus a dog), but overall the effect works because, after all, they're just playacting ... right?
June 05, 2014
It doesn't help that some of the acting is drama-school awful, a fault for which the directors should be held more liable than the cast.
June 05, 2014
Tweenie woodland warmongering is at the centre of this tonally haywire fantasy satire.
September 10, 2014
A unique and out of the box film, and though the end result is only above average, it's still worth watching.
July 15, 2015
A bitter but paradoxically entertaining fantasia.
April 08, 2014
A breath of fresh air, whether you're looking for a good movie about kids or a good war picture.
September 03, 2013
Co-directors Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson do little more than repeatedly echo the pic's theme after establishing the basic conceit of Lapeyre's script in the opening minutes.
August 29, 2013
Imagination is what these filmmakers could use more of, as their ingenious concept doesn't develop much beyond gimmick.
