Overlord (2018)

The first time I saw the trailer to today's film, I knew it was a film that I wanted to see, but I never had the chance to until now. In a lot of Adolf Hitler's speeches, you always heard this thing about a thousand year reich and you wondered what in the hell was he talking about and how would he even achieve that? Well, what if we took that statement and we expanded on it for a film and that is today's film's Overlord which was directed by Julius Avery (Son Of A Gun) and the film is about a group of soldiers that are tasked with having to blow up a radio tower in a small French town so that the US can begin storming the beaches in Normandy. The only problem is that when they get there it proves to be challenging and they discover just what kind of sinister plans the Nazis have to accomplish this 1000 year goal. The film stars Jovan Adepo (Fences) as Boyce, Wyatt Russell (22 Jump Street) as Ford, Mathilde Ollivier (The Misfortunes of François Jane) as Chloe, Pilou Asbæk (Game Of Thrones) as Wafner, John Magaro (The Big Short) as Tibbet, Iain De Caestecker (Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D) as Chase, Dominic Applewhite (The King's Speech) as Rosenfeld, and Bokeem Woodbine (Spider-Man: Homecoming) as Rensin.

If you are looking for Saving Private Ryan, Flags Of Our Fathers, or any other World War 2 movie like that then turn away because this is more in the style of Inglorious Basterds than that. This is just supposed to be a fun monster movie that happens to take place during the second World War and it would have played at a Grindhouse. I thought the film was a lot of fun and you see this transformation in Jovan Adepo's character where he is this grunt that is not respected by his peers because he's afraid and his head is just not in the game. Over the course of the film, that begins to change as he is just put through the ringer and he begins to get hardened by the war or at least in the situation they are in. There is one thing that I did like about the film and that is they have no idea what these re-animated corpses are. They are not calling them zombies because that term hasn't been thrown around a lot and Boyce can't seem to explain what he has seen. As far as they know, this serum is masking them into super soldiers that just kill everything they see in sight. The special effects are great in my opinion and it's no surprise as they have J.J. Abrams as a producer and that gunfire that we see in the opening sequence is terrifying. The makeup special effects were also amazing and I loved what they did with Wafner towards the end because they make him the true super villain of the film. If you want something fun to watch that is also bad ass at times then check out Overlord. I am going to give the film an B+ for a final grade.