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Outside the Wire ending spoilers follow. Outside the Wire takes place in the not-so-distant future, and yet the landscape of warfare has totally changed. In addition to drones, there are robo-soldiers called Gumps deployed alongside humans into dangerous battlefronts. It's 2036, and a civil war is taking place in Eastern Europe, with Russia trying to reclaim areas of Ukraine, while Ukrainian rebel groups fight back. Captain Leo (Anthony Mackie) pairs up with drone pilot Thomas Harp (Damson Idris) and heads into a deadly militarized zone to locate a doomsday device before terrorist Victor ...

It is the year 2036. (If this review had a soundtrack, it would play a Hans-Zimmer-inflected variant of a dramatic “dum-DUM” musical bit right now.) Eastern Europe is engulfed in civil war—the sort of civil war that enables filmmakers to keep the ideologies vague and the names sinister-sounding. (“No need to ask, he’s a”) drone operator Lieutenant Harp (Damson Idris) disobeys a direct order to take out a deadly truck. He saves about three dozen soldiers but two fighting men perish. There is bad feeling all around. Advertisement He’s sent back to training, but he’s really on a ...

'Outside the Wire' raises some serious questions about drone warfare but quickly loses interest in itself. You may or may not feel the same.

Availability Netflix January 15 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 y...

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