JJ Abrams produces the cinematic video game-like Overlord which is totally bonkers but brilliant
The plot sees American paratroopers trying to take out a transmitter but they stumble across a horrifying Nazi secret project
THIS film is nuts. It’s like a panel of Wolfenstein and Call of Duty: Nazi Zombie players were given $40million and told to make a B-Movie horror. It’s nuts, and quite brilliant.
With D-Day on the horizon, a bunch of American paratroopers are tasked with taking out a transmitter which will allow Allied planes safe passage. However along the way, they uncover a particularly gruesome secret project that, if allowed to progress, would give Nazis an unfair advantage to say the least.
Produced by our own cinematic overlord J.J. Abrams, Overlord is as close as you’ll come to a video game in human form.
It has the whole thing down to a patter - the narrative, the mission and a killer end-boss level - with just the most insane opening sequence of a war film you’re likely to see for some time.
A largely unknown cast (the exception being Game of Thrones’ Pilou Asbæk) punch way above their weight here, in particular Wyatt Russell (yes, son of Kurt) and Jovan Adepo - who take the kitsch and absurd and give it some decent depth.
The subtext of the horrors of Josef Mengele’s WWII experiments literally brought back to life make sure that the copious amounts of blood, gore, scares and violence aren't all surface and no feeling.