Overlord
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On the eve of D-Day, a team of American paratroopers crash behind enemy lines and come face-to-face with a Nazi threat unlike any the world has ever seen.
What critics thought
Critics were broadly positive on this WWII-zombie genre mashup, but the gap between a strong majority approval and a middling critical average tells the real story: many reviewers found it competent and entertaining without being especially original. The film's familiar influences — horror, war movie, video-game aesthetic — are both its calling card and its ceiling.
“Even at its most suspenseful, when Jed Kurzel's cello score stabs at the eardrums, Overlord feels familiar, a collage of cinematic nightmares checking off its influences: a woman wielding a flamethrower like Ripley in Aliens, a cruel SS officer (the terrifically hissable Pilou Asbæk) who grins like a Batman villain, and enough of a Castle Wolfenstein video-game vibe that its fans may find themselves reaching for the controls out of habit.”
Amy Nicholson·Variety
“Director Julius Avery goes to the startle-scare early and often. Every turn, every beat feels too familiar. The writers didn't bother researching period lingo. Characters do idiotic things to enable plot devices. The screaming and gunfire seem excessive for a stealth mission. And the whole undead thing simply doesn't pay off.”
Michael Ordoña·San Francisco Chronicle
Genres
Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Cast & Crew
Julius AveryDirector
Jovan AdepoBoyce
Wyatt RussellFord
Pilou AsbækWafner
Mathilde OllivierChloe
John MagaroTibbet
Iain De CaesteckerChase
Jacob AndersonDawson
Dominic ApplewhiteRosenfeld
Joseph QuinnGrunauer
Bokeem WoodbineRensin
Erich RedmanDr. Schmidt
Jed KurzelComposer
Billy RayWriter
Mark L. SmithWriter
Fabian WagnerCinematography
Laurie RoseCinematographyOverlord
On the eve of D-Day, a team of American paratroopers crash behind enemy lines and come face-to-face with a Nazi threat unlike any the world has ever seen.
What critics thought
Critics were broadly positive on this WWII-zombie genre mashup, but the gap between a strong majority approval and a middling critical average tells the real story: many reviewers found it competent and entertaining without being especially original. The film's familiar influences — horror, war movie, video-game aesthetic — are both its calling card and its ceiling.
“Even at its most suspenseful, when Jed Kurzel's cello score stabs at the eardrums, Overlord feels familiar, a collage of cinematic nightmares checking off its influences: a woman wielding a flamethrower like Ripley in Aliens, a cruel SS officer (the terrifically hissable Pilou Asbæk) who grins like a Batman villain, and enough of a Castle Wolfenstein video-game vibe that its fans may find themselves reaching for the controls out of habit.”
Amy Nicholson·Variety
“Director Julius Avery goes to the startle-scare early and often. Every turn, every beat feels too familiar. The writers didn't bother researching period lingo. Characters do idiotic things to enable plot devices. The screaming and gunfire seem excessive for a stealth mission. And the whole undead thing simply doesn't pay off.”
Michael Ordoña·San Francisco Chronicle
Genres
Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Cast & Crew
Julius AveryDirectorJovan AdepoBoyceWyatt RussellFordPilou AsbækWafnerMathilde OllivierChloeJohn MagaroTibbetIain De CaesteckerChaseJacob AndersonDawsonDominic ApplewhiteRosenfeldJoseph QuinnGrunauerBokeem WoodbineRensinErich RedmanDr. SchmidtJed KurzelComposerBilly RayWriterMark L. SmithWriterFabian WagnerCinematographyLaurie RoseCinematographyStream
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