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In the new Netflix sci-fi action thriller Outside the Wire, young hotshot drone pilot Thomas Harp (Damson Idris) is busted down to combat duty in the militarized zone after disobeying a direct order. The year is 2036, and the U.S. military is on a peacekeeping mission in Eastern Europe where a warlord named Viktor Koval (Pilou Asbaek) is trying to get his hands on a stockpile of Russian nuclear weapons so that he can destabilize the world by aiming them at major international cities.
Since this is the future, human soldiers work alongside bulky android warriors known as “gumps.” But Harp is in for a surprise when he is assigned to duty with Captain Leo (Anthony Mackie), who is something new: a fully human-looking android, with flesh covering a mechanized exoskeleton and matrix, and possessed not just of super strength,...
In the new Netflix sci-fi action thriller Outside the Wire, young hotshot drone pilot Thomas Harp (Damson Idris) is busted down to combat duty in the militarized zone after disobeying a direct order. The year is 2036, and the U.S. military is on a peacekeeping mission in Eastern Europe where a warlord named Viktor Koval (Pilou Asbaek) is trying to get his hands on a stockpile of Russian nuclear weapons so that he can destabilize the world by aiming them at major international cities.
Since this is the future, human soldiers work alongside bulky android warriors known as “gumps.” But Harp is in for a surprise when he is assigned to duty with Captain Leo (Anthony Mackie), who is something new: a fully human-looking android, with flesh covering a mechanized exoskeleton and matrix, and possessed not just of super strength,...
- 1/16/2021
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
Have you ever watched “Training Day” and wondered how cool it would be if, 15 minutes into the movie, Denzel Washington took off his shirt to reveal that he was actually a semi-translucent android super-soldier with the strength of a Terminator and the emotional range of a B-team Avenger? Of course you have — you’re only human. But screenwriters Rowan Athale and Rob Yescombe took it upon themselves to actually make that dream a reality, and the result of their efforts is
It’s rare to see something that dares to perform an entire Cirque du Soleil routine on the narrow tightrope between smart and silly; rare enough that it’s tempting to forgive “Outside the Wire” for how frantically it struggles to retain its balance. The film’s paradoxical obsession with preserving the humanity of warfare is compelling enough to keep things moving even when everything around it feels bland and gray,...
It’s rare to see something that dares to perform an entire Cirque du Soleil routine on the narrow tightrope between smart and silly; rare enough that it’s tempting to forgive “Outside the Wire” for how frantically it struggles to retain its balance. The film’s paradoxical obsession with preserving the humanity of warfare is compelling enough to keep things moving even when everything around it feels bland and gray,...
- 1/15/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Take some ingredients from the Terminator movies, add seasoning from action war pictures like Black Hawk Down or 13 Hours, throw in a pinch of cinematic nuclear terrorism a la True Lies (minus the Middle Eastern stereotypes), and mix it all in that strange blender known as the Netflix algorithm machine. That’s likely how you come up with a movie like Outside the Wire, a military sci-fi action thriller which premieres this week on the streamer.
Directed by Mikael Håfström (whose most recent work includes episodes of the Netflix series Bloodline as well as the 2013 action film Escape Plan), Outside the Wire is set in 2036 as a violent civil war is raging in Eastern Europe, specifically in and around Ukraine. A series of title cards indicates that U.S. forces, acting as peacekeepers in the region, employ robotic soldiers known as “gumps” while the lawless zone is coming increasingly...
Directed by Mikael Håfström (whose most recent work includes episodes of the Netflix series Bloodline as well as the 2013 action film Escape Plan), Outside the Wire is set in 2036 as a violent civil war is raging in Eastern Europe, specifically in and around Ukraine. A series of title cards indicates that U.S. forces, acting as peacekeepers in the region, employ robotic soldiers known as “gumps” while the lawless zone is coming increasingly...
- 1/13/2021
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
“Outside the Wire” opens with a full-on action scene. Robot soldiers fight alongside human ones — or maybe against them. It’s hard to tell. Bullets fly. Tough guys in helmets crouch behind concrete barriers. Two men are hit, and their commanding officer makes plans to pull them to safety, while half a world away, in the middle of the Nevada desert, a hot shot named Harp (“Snowfall” star Damson Idris) eats gummy bears and takes control of the situation. Disobeying a direct order, he launches a drone strike, killing two and saving the other 38. In the next scene, he is court-martialed and sent to the demilitarized zone for a taste of combat.
So begins the latest Netflix action movie, which I wager will be seen by more eyeballs than took in “Tenet” on the big screen last year. They will watch because it stars Anthony Mackie as a android super-trooper,...
So begins the latest Netflix action movie, which I wager will be seen by more eyeballs than took in “Tenet” on the big screen last year. They will watch because it stars Anthony Mackie as a android super-trooper,...
- 1/13/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
The futuristic, science fiction action feature "Outside The Wire", stars Damson Idris as a 'drone' pilot, sent into a deadly militarized zone under the command of Anthony Mackie an 'android' officer, tasked to locate a doomsday device, streaming January 15, 2021 on Netflix:
"...In 2036, America serves as a peacekeeping force with human troops on both sides supported by the robot combatant 'Gumps' and drone pilots monitoring skirmishes from thousands of miles away. But after headstrong drone pilot 'Lieutenant Harp' (Damson Idris) disobeys a direct order to intervene in a conflict, the Army deploys him to a military outpost to confront the human costs of his button-pushing.
"Harp’s expectations of guarding a fence are upended when his new commanding officer 'Captain Leo' (Anthony Mackie) announces plans to infiltrate the demilitarized zone and apprehend 'Viktor Koval' (Pilou Asbæk), a warlord who intends to launch a network of nuclear weapons.
"Harp...
"...In 2036, America serves as a peacekeeping force with human troops on both sides supported by the robot combatant 'Gumps' and drone pilots monitoring skirmishes from thousands of miles away. But after headstrong drone pilot 'Lieutenant Harp' (Damson Idris) disobeys a direct order to intervene in a conflict, the Army deploys him to a military outpost to confront the human costs of his button-pushing.
"Harp’s expectations of guarding a fence are upended when his new commanding officer 'Captain Leo' (Anthony Mackie) announces plans to infiltrate the demilitarized zone and apprehend 'Viktor Koval' (Pilou Asbæk), a warlord who intends to launch a network of nuclear weapons.
"Harp...
- 1/7/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
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