Title - Overlord
Studio - Paramount Pictures, Bad Robot
Starring - Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Olivier, John Magaro, Iain de Caestecker, Pilou Asbaek
Writer - Billy Ray, Mark L. Smith
Director - Julius Avery
Release - 9 November 2018
Julius Avery has potential. He mixes a World War II movie with a monster genre and, had it been a better script, this would have had a better result.
At the moment, it looks like a very, very high budget B-movie in the best way possible.
But the characterization was lacking a lot. Especially with Wyatt Russell's character. Every order he made to the other three soldiers made no sense. Why order two to go wait at the bridge? Why order another one to go look for them? Why torture the enemy when in the previous dialogue he just ordered Jovan Adepo's character to stick to the mission?
Inconsistency and lack of reasoning are what I cannot accept in any story. And Overlord had too much of them.
However, Avery had some really cool sequences. A few times the camera just followed Adepo around; at times creating tension and at other times showing off really cool explosions. There were also a lot of ode to past horror flicks, with certain frames kind of paying homage to horror movies from the 80's and 90's.
Much of the budget was spent on CGI, hence making the movie a little too expensive and now it is trying to close the gap to breakeven.
Nevertheless, this still shows that a movie with no known names but an interesting premise, especially being a cross between a war movie with Frankenstein's Monster, and also the zombie genre; it can be successful.
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