If anything, the buzzing vests the soldiers have to wear over their combat uniforms make the whole experience feel like a game of laser tag on a Hollywood budget. Of course, Atropia is meant to be ...

The film centers on Atropia, a fake city built outside of Los Angeles, full of props and actors meant to prepare American soldiers for deployment in the Iraq War. The concept initially seems ...

In Atropia, Gates, who also wrote the screenplay, includes a hampering romantic thread between our aspiring actress and a soldier cast as an Atropian insurgent (Callum Turner). Their love story ...

While few Hollywood war movies have so directly confronted the flaws in the U.S.’ “Forever Wars,” the observations on racism and the military in “Atropia” are seldom explored beyond the ...