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The nature of that mission gets revealed bit by bit over the course of two fairly monotonous hours, during which Harp predictably discovers that war looks quite different on the ground than it did from the safety and comfort of a trailer in Nevada, thousands of miles away. Those fuzzy shapes on his monitor were real people, and now he’s one of them. Interspersed among the blunt moralism are battle sequences that, while passably exciting, mostly serve to illustrate just how ludicrously superhuman the average action-movie hero is. Despite taking place just 15 years from now,
Outside The Wire features robot soldiers that resemble
In its depiction of a war set 15 years in the future, Mikael Hafstromâs
Outside The Wire does what all the best sci-fi stories do: uses advanced science and technology to make a comment on modernity. The target in this particular case, so to speak, is the diminution of the human factor in warfare, with it becoming routine for drones operated by pilots thousands of miles away from combat zones to execute operations. In this endeavor it is ultimately rather clever, doing a deep dive on utilitarian philosophy while throwing some excellent action into the mix â but it is also a case of a movie trying to do a little too much.
Outside the Wire Review: Netflix s Sci-Fi Action Film Has Ludicrous Fun With an Android Anthony Mackie
Mackie continues to build his star profile Jordan Hoffman
Jan. 13, 2021, 12:01 a.m. PT
One of the best things about movies is, usually, if someone does something that makes no sense, you can wait long enough and there will be clarity. Especially in a military techno thriller. Why would the General
do that? you cry. And then, when you get to the end, it s, Aha! They had me for a while!
Such is the case with the Netflix film
Outside The Wire. Unlike in real life, where you ll never know for sure why your sister-in-law just up-and-became a jerk one day, sticking with these two baffling hours brings answers. (Trust me on this, as I almost lost hope.) Luckily, there are other rewards along the way, like seeing Anthony Mackie play an unstoppable killing machine rampaging his way through the Crimea.