romping through splattered internal organs and severed limbs while providing Nazi-killing catharsis), it does damn well.
That’s not a complaint: what Overlord does (i.e. The characters fit certain “types” - Jovan Adepo as Boyce, the soldier too tender-hearted to even kill a mouse Wyatt Russell as tough guy Ford, making a strong case for stepping into his father Kurt’s shoes should Hollywood ever attempt a second remake of The Thing Mathilde Ollivier as Chloe, the sole female presence and Game of Thrones’ Pilou Asbæk as Wafner, the cartoonishly menacing Nazi officer - and they’re knocked down in the order you expect them to be. Though the sci-fi aspect of the film manages to imbue it with a little freshness, there’s little surprising about how Overlord unfolds. Jovan Adepo, making an unpleasant discovery. There’s also something sinister happening in the basement of the church nearby the radio tower, as villagers are brought in for punishments from which they return severely ill and disfigured, or fail to return at all. Of course, it’s easier said than done, as there are only five of them and dozens of German soldiers. But, this being Bad Robot, things aren’t quite so straightforward as all that: Overlord is more Wolfenstein (the zombie versions, to be clear) than it is Band of Brothers.Īfter parachuting into a Nazi-occupied French village on the eve of the Normandy landings, a cadre of soldiers get to work trying to take down a German radio tower.
To set the tone, Overlord overtly draws from old war movies - the studio logos are in sepia tone, the score by Jed Kurzel is heavy on strings, and even the end credits mimic the same oeuvre, with splashy, Golden-Age-of-Hollywood-esque lettering and the imitation of film grain.
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Directed by Julius Avery, the movie’s not a secret Cloverfield sequel, but it is a sci-fi horror movie dressed up in a WWII movie’s clothes, and a startlingly fun ride. “Pleasant” and “gross” aren’t words that usually go together, but there’s something pleasantly gross about Overlord, the latest genre film to come out of J.J.
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