SomeoneMovie Review: Outpost
July 6th 2009 23:49
Premise: A group of mercenaries is hired by an American stranger to escort him to a site in a war-torn country. When they get there, they discover an abandoned Nazi bunker, and are soon after set upon by a mysterious, otherworldly foe.
I'm going to say this straight away: Stop reading, go out, and rent this movie. It as absolutely brilliant.
First of all, there is something about seeing convincing soldiers in a movie. One of my biggest turn-offs is watching soldiers on screen when you can clearly tell the actors have 0 idea about soldiering. I know I'm not one to talk, not even knowing any soldiers, but even a layman like me can tell the difference. Outpost has convincing soldiery, making the movie that much more convincing.
Soldiering aside, the acting is pretty top-notch.
The gore effects scenes are pretty quick, with none of the long, protracted gore scenes that I have been becoming used to coming out of Hollywood.
I've mentioned the commander
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There's something that I noticed when watching The Bunker (also a great little flick) which was confirmed watching Outpost: Bunkers are an awesome setting for a horror movie. Almost as good as submarines. The sense of claustrophobia inherent in such confined spaces and narrow corridors, it's just wicked! Mind you, I could be biased seeing as the only bunker-set movies I have watched have been good ones, but still... when used well, this setting is awesome.
One of the major complaints I have read about this movie is one that is made about a lot of horror movies: Plot holes. The writers attempt to explain the bad guys here, which they really needed to as it links in to the whole premise of the movie. They attempt to tie in the bad guys with the theories of Einstein, in particular his unified field theory. Not being a physicist myself, I can't comment on how (im)plausible this may or may not be, but to an average joe like me it didn't seem that far fetched... no more far fetched than Nazi ghost zombies, that is. To be fair to the writers, most of the holes that people picked up were only there because the tools weren't paying attention, and were explained away at some stage in the movie. Sure, maybe watching this movie will require you to suspend your disbelief for an hour or two... but no more so than a finger-blade equipped psycho coming after you in your dreams, or an invulnerable killer coming after you camping near his lake.
Overall, an awesome little ghost/zombie flick, and definitely worth renting if you get the chance. I'm not usually a fan of buying movies, but I'm most definitely considering picking this one up if I get the chance.
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I may have been a little stoned when I watched it, which could be why the Germans scared the bejeezus out of me... which is probably why I like it so much. Especially that creepy commander... gives me the shivers just thinking about it.
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