2018 Directed by Julius Avery
On the eve of D-Day during World War II, American paratroopers are caught behind enemy lines after their plane crashes on a mission to destroy a German Radio Tower in a small town outside of Normandy. After reaching their target, the paratroopers come to realize that besides fighting off Nazi soldiers, they also must fight against horrifying, bloody, and violent creatures that are a result of a secret Nazi experiment.
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".
I went into this expecting a good time watching Nazis be murdered but then the movie reminded me of this very interesting fun fact: NAZIS ARE BAD AND VERY VERY SCARY AND WE SHOULD MURDER THEM ALL
So, thank you Mr. Avery for reminding me of that and also showing me things that are going to haunt me for the next few weeks.
Okay for reals though, this movie is *NUTS* and not exactly in the fun, "Inglorious Basterds" meets "Wolfenstein" way you were probably expecting. This is a serious, no nonsense horror film that manages to nail the slow burn horrors of war to the insane horrors of Nazi experimentation without feeling like either side is from completely different…
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.
The opening scene is really the only thing of any merit and even then it's painfully clear that it's just cribbing from better wartime movies. As soon as they make it to the small town where most the movie happens it becomes one of the most uninteresting films I've seen this year. We were promised Nazi zombies a lot of Gore schlock everything that one would want from a grindhouse type film and what they gave us was a bunch of cartoonishly bad stereotypes hanging out in an attic while occasionally going out to shoot other cartoonishly bad archetypes. The movie takes itself too seriously for me to have fun with it and lacks any sense of self-awareness. if the…
How fitting it is for Wyatt Russell to star in the remake of the film that broke his parents out as a power couple. Folks, you know that this isn't "Overboard", because Russell probably had them cut the snow out of this "Dead Snow" knock-off so it wouldn't look too much like "The Thing". It is the eve of D-Day, when a team of American paratroopers slip into France to take out a German radio tower, along the way taking up shelter with a beautiful village girl. It's a classic distraction, but a much bloodier one threatens to keep our men from ensuring that D-Day becomes... one of the most famously successful military campaigns in modern history. There's no surprise…
Por Matías Polako
@VideoKanjiClub
Una muy buena y divertida película B. Con mescla de géneros, como acción, bélica, terror y ciencia ficción. No es para ir esperando una película de zombies, porque en realidad no lo es completamente...
No esta para ir corriendo al cine y pagar una entrada a full, pero si seria una buena opción cuando esté en Netflix...
Overlord may not have the strongest narrative or three dimensional characters but it sure is entertaining and extremely well made. It features one of my favourite opening sequences from a film this year and sounds incredible on the big screen. The editing is a little choppy in the second half but apart from that audiences will leave this film asking, "Why aren't there more R rated films like this out there?
With equal parts midnight movie humor, disgustingly bloody horror violence, and retro patriotic war movie, “Overlord” could be accused of being overly ambitious. Maybe it should be accused of that. But somehow this splatterfest feels as if it’s lacking initiative in all areas. There’s so much that could’ve been done in the way of subtext and irony, but instead director Julius Avery‘s film feels like a lazy exercise in missed opportunities.
So I saw Overlord at the theater. I always love a good zombie flick and the trailer of the movie made it look like some gory fun. Overall the movie played out a bit like a live action video game complete with a boss battle. Ridiculous but still a fun ride.
The story of the movie follows a group of American soldiers in World War II on their mission to sabotage a Nazi radio tower. Of course along the way they encounter a secret Nazi plot involving how to use super soldier like zombies to take over the world. Along the way the movie incorporates elements of WW II action, black comedy, and gory thrills.
In a lot of ways…
Creo que lo más sorprendente de esta divertida y fresca locura fue lo bien desarrollados y memorables que fueron los personajes para este tipo de propuesta
Exact amount of gore and some cheesy one liners that make this movie fucking awesome.
Iconic quote: "A thousand year Reich needs thousand year soldiers"
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