Outpost
by Steve Barker
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Actor: Julian Wadham, Ray Stevenson, Richard BrakeDirector: Steve Barker
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.40:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Outpost
DVD Review: I liked this movie a lot....
Summary: 4 Stars
I thought this was a well-produced, well-acted, and generally well-written movie. It works on several levels and manages to comment on the world today by linking the story to the WWII era with a sci-fi plot device.
The sci-fi aspect is not that well developed (the only real flaw in the movie) but it doesn't distract too much from the overall effect and meaning of the movie. I have to admit that I wanted the script to end differently, but perhaps that was the point of the story: by the end of the film we understand that man's inhumanity to man--and the men who perpetrate the "profession of violence"--are both perpetual.
Spoilers Ahead...
The events in the film are meant to point out that the SS Nazis who are still protecting the experimental machine related to Einstein's "Unified Field Theory" (something quite different that the script makes it out to be) are not all that much different from the soldiers of fortune who were hired to help a mysterious man (the scientist) locate something of value to him. As the plot unfolds, it tells a straight-forward horror/sci-fi tale but the better-than-average script manages to comment on several notable things along the way: the military and the chain of command, the value of faith and/or a belief in God amidst truly terrifying circumstances, and the importance of money as a motivator in today's world. I felt that I was getting more than my money's worth...I got a scary story in a well-produced film that also had something to say about today's world by recalling the horrors of a previous time.
By the way, I actually felt sorry for the "trapped" ghost soldiers and the SS leader by the end of the film because they were never released by death from the violence that rules their lives (and WWII and the Nazi regime were as violent and horrible as war has ever been...the only difference today is we've just got better weapons). The ghost soldiers seemed to be doomed to protect the very thing that had created their perpetual vigilance, thereby meaning that there would be no end to their that existence. In telling the story, the script puts lots of words into the various characters' mouths about their views of our still very violent world and their places in the world as hired soldiers. The fact that the long-dead Nazis have a sort of "technology edge" over the living soldiers is, I'm sure, one of the intended ironies of the story.
Although I wasn't surprised at the ending, I just am old enough to want the script to let someone in the original group survive the ordeal. I say I'm "old enough to want" because I recall a time when there were actually protagonists in such films (not just anti-heroes or villains) that the audience was to identify with and thus want to see survive. One of my pet peeves about most sci-fi or horror films made since 9/11 (Sept. 11, 2001) is that in our post-terrorist-attack world, everyone in the story must die at the end and that means that there are no heroes in today's scripts, just anti-heroes.
Anyway, this film is more than creepy, atmospheric, logical, and scary enough to warrant a DVD rental. And if you like Nazi stuff and/or the idea of time-travel sci-fi mixed with military-mentality commentary and want to examine the script in multiple viewings (perhaps even with the captions on because some of the sound and accents are hard to decipher) you'll want to buy the movie. I rented it because, according to the DVD box, the film had zombie (undead) Nazis. What more do you need to know?? Zombies. Nazis. I'm there....<grin>
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