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Updated · The Guardian · Sep 3

CIA Operatives Chris and Lee Head to Easter Island Before 1973 Allende Assassination Plot

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Updated · The Guardian · Sep 3

CIA Operatives Chris and Lee Head to Easter Island Before 1973 Allende Assassination Plot

1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Sep 3

1973-set dark comedy "Wild Horse Nine" follows CIA operatives Chris and Lee as they leave Santiago for a semi-sanctioned Easter Island trip just before a mission to kill Chilean President Salvador Allende.
Chris’s severe morphine addiction and growing recklessness drive the detour: he is drafting memoirs and blurting out details of past black-ops killings to strangers, alarming both Lee and their boss MJ.
Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich play the pair as bickering veteran killers, with Lee acting as minder while Chris’s deeper significance to CIA history gradually emerges.
The review says Martin McDonagh’s latest keeps his familiar two-man, sour-bond formula but finds the U.S. setting less funny and more violently macho, making it watchable rather than a top-tier entry.

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How does setting a dark comedy against the tragic 1973 Chilean coup challenge our perception of historical covert operations?

Can a film successfully balance the harrowing reality of addiction with the uneasy humor of a derailed CIA assassination plot?

Will the surreal isolation of Easter Island push McDonagh's signature mismatched characters to their ultimate psychological breaking point?

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