“Overlord” (2018) / Z-View
Overlord (2018)
Director: Julius Avery
Screenplay: Billy Ray, Mark L. Smith from a story by Billy Ray
Stars: Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier, Pilou Asbæk and Bokeem Woodbine.
The Pitch: “Think Saving Private Ryan meets Dawn of the Dead.”
Tagline: None.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
A team of soldiers is flown deep into enemy territory the night before D-Day. Their mission to destroy a Nazi radio tower is essential to the success of the Allied invasion. When their plane is blown from the sky, a few of the soldiers survive. In order to complete their mission they will find themselves against a company of Nazis and something much, much worse.
Overlord starts out as a straight war movie, becomes a tense drama and then goes full tilt horror. The action in each genre smoothly integrates and the end result is a scary, roller coaster of a movie that satisfies and leaves you hoping for another ride. While Overlord‘s trailers give you the broad strokes, there are enough twists and turns to satisfy even the most jaded horror movie/zombie fan.
When the movie was over I turned to my wife and said, “The guy who played Ford would make a great Snake Plissken.” She responded, “You know that he’s Kurt Russell’s son, right?” Truth be told, I didn’t, but stand by my opinion that he would make a great Snake Plissken and Overlord will make a nice addition to my movie collection.
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