Couple of recent watches from me.
OVERLORD - WWII Nazi super soldier/zombie flick. It's a mashup of a B movie premise with an A movie cast, production values, budget, actors, script, direction etc. Effects are by Industrial Light & Magic, major studio, JJ Abrams involved, and suchlike. Really great Saturday night watch, starts off as a standard sort of WWII film and then gradually draws you into some very weird, very dark places. Crazy Nazi scientist is trying to perfect the 'super soldier', using French villagers as disposable experimentation subjects, and the experiments aren't going too well.... A squad of American soldiers are on a mission to blow up a radio station on the run up to D-Day, but they find more than they bargained for....
Considered a 'hard R' in the States and got an 18 here, which takes a bit these days, it doesn't spare the horror once it gets going.
Fantastic fun - 865/1000 (I thought of the new Wolfenstein games more than once....)
TRIPLE FRONTIER - Has just turned up on Netflix with no real theatrical release and appears to have been in production limbo for the best part of a decade, which doesn't bode well, but this is a solid film. Cast includes Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac and Charlie Hunnam. Directed by the chap who did that there MARGIN CALL and ALL IS LOST and A MOST VIOLENT YEAR.
It's a heist movie except the heist happens just over halfway through the film and the entire third act is the aftermath of the heist, which seems to have annoyed a lot of people on imdb who didn't get the point of the third act, which rather misses the point of the film IMO.
The basic premise is there's a group of five ex-US marine style chaps, who did 'dark' missions in various foreign countries, and they haven't adapted well to civilian life once out of the forces. One of their number brings the group back together with an idea for a job that'll set them all up for life, working for themselves rather than a country that never rewarded their sacrifices.
This isn't an amazing film, the script clunks a bit in places, however the locations are fucking breathtaking (Colombia, The Andes and suchlike), and the story is solid, and when the actors have their better lines to deliver they rise to the occasion.
Deffo one to watch on a really big telly if you can, the action scenes are superbly shot (the heist itself is excellent), and I was quite happy with the way the third act panned out, even though many seem to see it as a pointless anti-climax. Anyway, it's on Netflix so if you've got it, no reason not to watch it.
740/1000
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