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Snakes in Movies   War, Inc. (2008)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   This is a dark comedy war satire. The film takes place in the fictional country of Turaqistan which is in ruins from constant war with America. The film was made near the end of the war in Iraq and reflects a lot of the absurdity of that conflict and re-building, but instead of the United States military, this war is being fought by a corporation named Tamerlane, which has also been hired to re-build the destroyed country. Tamerlane puts its bright red logo on everything in the city, proudly claiming that "American know-how alleviates the suffering it creates," as Tamerlane tanks covered with advertisements drive around blasting insurgents. The main character is Hauser (John Cusack) an assassin working for an American spy agency that gave him a briefcase full of Tamerlane money to kill a Turaqistani businessman named Omar Sharif who is building a gas pipeline that will cut Tamerlane's profits. Hauser has been given a cover job as a Trade Show Producer with his assistant, Marsha (Joan Cusack). When a shipment from Dow Chemicals he ordered doesn't arrive, Hauser tells Marsha to get him a cobra, apparently to help him kill Sharif. (Then they skipped the best part - Marsha Googling cobras for sale, making phone calls, finally finding someone to sell her a cobra and arranging to have it shipped to her, then finding somewhere to keep the deadly snake while she finds a website Hauser could use to learn how to milk cobra venom. That could be a movie in itself.) But, instead, the film cuts to a video playing on a laptop computer showing a man in a turban teaching how to milk a cobra on Cobramilk.com. (Of course I checked - it's not a real website.) As the camera pulls out from the laptop we see Hauser holding a snake and milking its venom into a glass jar. After a sudden knock on the door, Houser tosses the snake and the venom jar and grabs his gun, but it's just Yonica (Hilary Duff) a Taraqistani pop singer described as the Britney Spears of Central Asia. As we watch her climb up on his desk and try to seduce him, all I could think was: "There's a live cobra on the floor!" I thought the snake might bite someone, but no such luck. The movie had other ideas, ingnoring the loose snake and the missing glass of venom, and cutting to another location. Later in the movie we see Hauser sitting at a restaurant table with Sharif's bodyguards, concealing a small vial of snake venom in his hand underneath the table, waiting for a chance to put it Sharif's soup. We see him take the top off the vial, but when sudden gunshots startle him we see that he accidentally spilled the vial, spoiling his assassination plan. The snake is not a live one, but it's a convincing prop, and they did a good job of showing venom dripping out of the mouth into the glass.