Overlord

I wish I had gone into this cold instead of seeing teaser write-ups. Everything I saw made it sound like Allied troops fighting zombies during Operation Overlord (aka D-Day), only without the campy overtones of something like Dead Snow. That sounds awesome, doesn’t it? Instead, it’s mostly a small-scale mission to sabotage a radio tower to support Normandy, and in the last half hour of a two hour movie, it becomes a Resident Evil game. Seriously, this Nazi regiment might as well be the Umbrella Corporation. It would be a cool idea if it were sprinkled throughout the movie, with monstrosities and horrific science experiments on a drip feed that gets bigger and bigger. Instead, it’s all confined to the last 30 minutes. And two guys. It’s not a bad movie. The performances are good, cinematography is great, and the gore is visceral and nasty. This is a grim movie, and it kept me entertained. I just wish it was what it advertised instead of lifting most of its plot elements from PlayStation games and shoving them all into the last act of the movie.