What is it?
The 2008 American action war thriller drama movie The Hurt Locker.
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Waltz With Bashir (Vals Im Bashir)
What is it?
The 2008 Israeli animated war documentary drama movie Waltz With Bashir (Vals Im Bashir).
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Overlord (2018 Film)
What is it?
The 2018 American war horror movie Overlord.
What is it about?
This is how Rotten Tomatoes describes this movie:
With only hours until D-Day, a team of American paratroopers drop into Nazi-occupied France to carry out a mission that’s crucial to the invasion’s success.
Tasked with destroying a radio transmitter atop a fortified church, the desperate soldiers join forces with a young French villager to penetrate the walls and take down the tower.
But, in a mysterious Nazi lab beneath the church, the outnumbered G.I.s come face-to-face with enemies unlike any the world has ever seen.
From producer J.J. Abrams, Overlord is a thrilling, pulse-pounding action adventure with a twist.
My Thoughts
This was another assumed somewhat lower budget movie that surprised my brother GC and I by being better than we had expected.
It was actually more of a war film than you would think, it was a war film first, and a horror film second; and it managed to keep a pretty balanced tone and it never got too crazy like I thought that it would, and there was even a bit of comedy here and there without being too much.
This was a movie that many people probably passed up and/or did not know about, I do not blame them because when I saw the trailer I thought that the movie would start good as a war film but that it would get worse and more crazy, but to my surprise this movie managed to avoid that and do better than most people would think based on the trailer(s) for it.
This movie was like a combination of the movies Miracle At St. Anna and A Cure For Wellness, and was a 3.5 – 4 out of 5 in my opinion.
There were at least two actors from the television show Game Of Thrones in this movie, and you will possibly recognize a few other actors in this movie to your surprise.
The end,
-John Jr
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Beasts Of No Nation (Film)
What Is It?
The 2015 Netflix war drama movie Beasts Of No Nation by Cary Fukunaga that was based on the book Beasts Of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala.
What Is It About?
Here is how The IMDb describes this movie:
Follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in a fictional West African country. While Agu fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination Depicts the mechanics of war and does not shy away from explicit, visceral detail, and paints a complex, difficult picture of Agu as a child soldier. — Bennie Carden
This is how Rotten Tomatoes describes this movie:
In West Africa, the life of young Agu (Abraham Attah) is disrupted when his father is slaughtered in a civil war, and he is inscripted as a child soldier into a mercenary unit led by the sadistic Commandant (Idris Elba).
Here is how Wikipedia describes this movie:
Beasts of No Nation is a 2015 American wardrama film written, co-produced, shot, and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. It follows a young boy who becomes a child soldier as his country experiences a horrific civil war. Shot in Ghana and starring Idris Elba, Abraham Attah, Ama K. Abebrese, Grace Nortey, David Dontoh, and Opeyemi Fagbohungbe, the film is based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Uzodinma Iweala,[4] the book itself being named after a Fela Kuti album.
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