A sci-fi/thriller story centered on a special-ops team that is dispatched to fight supernatural beings.A sci-fi/thriller story centered on a special-ops team that is dispatched to fight supernatural beings.A sci-fi/thriller story centered on a special-ops team that is dispatched to fight supernatural beings.
Louis Ozawa
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- TriviaThe APC's are made by Tatra in The Czech Republic. Tatra uses a unique center still frame with the springs running across the body of the vehicle, rather than front to rear. You can clearly see the unusual result of that suspension at the 25 minute mark when the APC stops.
- GoofsWhen the general briefs Mark Clyne at the beginning at the film, he mentions that insurgents are in the north near the border with Russia. Moldova has no borders with Russia, it borders Ukraine in the north.
- Quotes
Clyne: I think you're reaching.
Fran Madison: Our business requires us to make suppositions.
Clyne: My business requires us to prove them. Your technician's job is to find glitches, so, he sees glitches. Your job is to find the enemy, so, you see the enemy. Locals believe in spirits, so they see spirits. Everyone is biased in one way or another. So, my answer to you right now is that we lack data to support any theory.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Flix Forum: Spectral (2019)
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Here's another flashy expensive looking effort to debut on streaming
In this military sci-fi from Legendary and Netflix, and from director Nic Mathieu, there's a civil war raging in Moldova, and US troops have been deployed to help bring peace. However, they encounter a strange phenomenon: ghostly beings, invisible to the naked eye, who can kill a person just by touching them. The army summons DARPA engineer Clyne (James Badge Dale) to the warzone to help determine what they are dealing with, and he's teamed with an elite Delta Force squad and CIA agent Madison (Emily Mortimer).
Here's another flashy, expensive looking effort that debuted on the Netflix streaming service rather than receive a theatrical release. The plot is fairly routine, lifting elements from various preceding military sci-fi flicks such as Aliens, while the visual style is a lot of warzone debris, smoke, and grime, with a lot of explosions and gunfire. The nature of the ghost beings is a mystery for the film's first half, but my choice for where to post this review is a minor spoiler in how that plays out. The performances are nothing but perfunctory. In the end, the movie feels like watching someone else playing a mediocre videogame for 100 minutes.
Here's another flashy, expensive looking effort that debuted on the Netflix streaming service rather than receive a theatrical release. The plot is fairly routine, lifting elements from various preceding military sci-fi flicks such as Aliens, while the visual style is a lot of warzone debris, smoke, and grime, with a lot of explosions and gunfire. The nature of the ghost beings is a mystery for the film's first half, but my choice for where to post this review is a minor spoiler in how that plays out. The performances are nothing but perfunctory. In the end, the movie feels like watching someone else playing a mediocre videogame for 100 minutes.
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- $70,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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