We have a British minister who gives a dry statement that a war in the Middle East is "unforeseeable". But the Prime Minister feels that this is an unacceptably clear and non-neutral statement for a politician. On his orders, his enforcer comes bullying down to the minister's office. The minister is ineptly assisted by a new joinee who keeps leaking inside information to the press. When this minister is invited by the US officials for a friendly visit, less does he know that he is marked as a victim of a political game.
Its a pleasure watching the enforcer spewing cuss words at everyone he meets. For him, political position or nationality doesn't matter. He treats his US counterparts the same way he treats his own statesmen. The minister on the other hand is a pawn on a chess board, pushed over and sacrificed at will. He is a serial offender and commits another mistake of a statement "climb the mountain of conflict" when asked about the relationship between UK and US.
There is also a secret war committee being formed and one of the assistants is asked find it out by running through the list of committees that has boring names. A Lt. General and another top official settle in a kids room and try to do a math calculation with a toy calculator. When another restricted committee meeting is held, too many attendees turn up so eventually they had to move to another big room which the Lt. General aptly mimics as cow-herding.
Likewise, there are many other supporting characters who raise the bar of political absurdity. The film starts slowly in a documentary-style cinematography and builds up the comedy as time progresses. There are at least more than a handful of scenes that made be roll in laughter.
"In the loop" requires that you turn on your intelligence to understand the nuances this film provides. Its not the slapstick variety that are often represent the so-called comedy genre.
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