Overlord
8/10
I
decided to check out the movie Overlord. I know it came out last year
and all I knew was that it took place during a war and that it got
crazy at the end. Yeah. It does. This movie was tense as fuck. From
the very start we meet a group of soldiers aboard a plane during WW2.
The thing I like about war movies is that characters are what they
are and it is easy to see who is who. Anyone creative (writer,
photographer, or artist) is gonna die. The guy that talks shit is
gonna have to prove he can back it up. The silent one is terrifying
and may turn on the team. These guys have a mission to cut off Nazi
communications the day before the beaches of Normandy are stormed.
They are cruising along when planes are shot down and they are hit.
Our main character Boyce seems terrified by everything all around him
before jumping out of the plane, almost drowning, and then landing in
time to see his sergeant slaughtered.
Corporal
Ford finds him (the quiet one) finds him and tells him to calm his
shit down before they get killed. They find other members from their
plane and the writer ends up getting blown to bits after stepping on
a mine. I was like “Not Grey Worm!” While walking they find some
animal of some sort that is dead. Looks like a wet horse dog. They
end up coming across this woman who bolts when they see her ass.
Boyce speaks French and is able to communicate with her until she
reveals she speaks English. And German. They get to her place where
it is just her aunt and little brother. She says her aunt is sick.
You know this won't be good. This asshole shows up for his nightly
bone down with Chloe and the team is almost found because of the
little brother. This kid is a nuisance! The asshole, played by Euron
Greyjoy, threatens to send her brother to the lab if she doesn't have
the sex. Just when he is about to schicken the dicken Boyce is like
“Not today!” Now they have a hostage.
The
team split to gather information about blowing up the communication
tower when Boyce ends up in living hell. He is almost caught, jumps
into a truck that is filled with dead bodies, and finds that the
Nazi's are experimenting on people. They got monster people. Only a
head bodies. Goo pits. He finds one of his paratroopers being
experimented on and takes him away through the sewers. After
punishing the asshole with punches that Boyce can not stand around
and watch they decide to cut him down and get going. Of course they
send the photographer who gets tricked and shot to death by him.
Boyce in a moment of desperation sticks the needle he took form the
lab into him and this fucker comes back to life. He is thirsty and
had a headache which he fixes by slamming his head through a post and
them breaking his neck and half his back on it. Then he attacks the
team, eats a dozen bullets, and has to have his head caved in by
Boyce.
This
movie gets progressively more insane but they handle it in such a way
that it does not feel as over the top as it should. It starts off
like a regular ass war film and slowly turns into horror. It would
not have worked if like a monster took their plane down or something
stupid like that. The main actor in this is really damn good and
everyone has realistic reactions to the scary shit in this. When
Boyce gets back from the lab and they ask what happened he starts
freaking the fuck out like anyone else would. This was a really cool
movie with great effects and a cool story. Seemed just a tiny bit too
long but I think if you are into horror you should check this out.
Jovan
Adepo as Private First Class Edward Boyce
Wyatt
Russell as Corporal Lewis Ford
Mathilde
Ollivier as Chloe
John
Magaro as Private First Class Lyle Tibbet
Pilou
Asbæk as Captain Wafner
Iain
De Caestecker as Private Morton Chase
Dominic
Applewhite as Private First Class Jacob Rosenfeld
Jacob
Anderson as Private First Class Charlie Dawson
Bokeem
Woodbine as Sergeant Rensin
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