2018 Directed by Julius Avery
France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy a radio tower in a small village near the beaches of Normandy. After reaching their target, the surviving paratroopers realise that, in addition to fighting the Nazi troops that patrol the village, they also must fight against something else.
Jovan Adepo Wyatt Russell Mathilde Ollivier John Magaro Pilou Asbæk Bokeem Woodbine Iain De Caestecker Dominic Applewhite Jacob Anderson Gianny Taufer Erich Redman Patrick Brammall Mark McKenna Joseph Quinn Hayley Carmachiel Marc Rissmann Meg Foster Sarah Finigan Gunther Wurger Bart Lambert Michael Epp Tom Mothersdale Ross Tomlinson Alison Thea-Skot Ben Tavassoli Shubham Saraf Andy Wareham Nick Roeten Hélène Cardona Show All…
I met Julis Avery on the festival circuit 9 years ago when he had his short Jerrycan doing the rounds. It is a really solid short and anyone who saw it knew Avery was going places. He reminds me of a young George Miller meets John Milius. He made his first feature Son of a Gun in 2014. Showed a lot of promise and a knack for action and violent set-pieces.
Cut to 2018... he's making films for J.J. Abrams. And Overlord is a very fun, pulpy genre film that shows Avery can direct HUGE set pieces will skill. He's being primed for some major blockbusters in the near future, I'm sure.
Wyatt Russell is Kurt circa 1982 all the…
Takes a bit too long to get rolling but once it does it's very silly and very, very wet. There's real glee in the splatter. With so much genre cinema lately seeming like a long episode of "Black Mirror", it's nice to see one that's a bit more "Tales From the Crypt".
57/100
A.V. Club review. Nothing in this got nearly as visceral a crowd reaction as did our collective realization that we were (on first attempt) mistakenly being shown Bohemian Rhapsody. A few people who'd seen it knew right away, thanks to the modified Fox fanfare (shredded on guitar), and then at the first sight of Malek the whole theater exploded, in a way that I don't think would have been as emphatic had it been, say, A Star Is Born.
This was very fun....or I mean the last 30 minutes were. The rest wasn’t bad by any means, though I will say the dialogue was god awful in some scenes (nothing more generic than a good ‘CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE.) But yeah, after getting through the end I was kinda bummed that so much potential was wasted for the first 2/3 of this. But to highlight some positives, BIG shoutout to whoever did the sound design as well as hair and makeup. This SHOULD get some Oscar recognition for sound mixing IMO but I’m doubtful. Anyways, very glad I caught this in theatres.
Fantastic Act 1, with pacing/tonal issues the rest of the way. I'm not sure it knows what it wants to be. Scifi elements arent introduced until minute 50 and there's a lot of wasted potential. Bonus for Fitz super soldier scene.
No Zombies fuck this movie I want zombies and I thought it was zombies but there were no zombies god fucking damn it where are the zombies SHIT
Overlord pretty much gave me the gory Nazi zombie film that I wanted. It’s a lot of fun and impressively directed by Julius Avery who stages several exciting action sequences. The film is much longer than it needed to be, mainly because they spend too much time holed up in a house.
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