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
- Sgt. Chen
- (as Louis Ozawa Changchien)
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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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Don't Expect Too Much ... and You Won't Be Disappointed
First, the Good: There is a lot of eye-candy - like a video game trailer. The production design, stunt-work, locations, visual FX (CG AND miniatures), score, and camera work are all very, very respectable - as good if not better than some more "mainstream" movies I've seen. The soldiers (for a change) look like they've actually handled a weapon before (although some of the tactics are kind of silly). The acting is decent -i.e. bland yet not so bad that it's distracting.
The Not-So-Good: The writing is borderline unforgivably bad - with more than a few parts ripped right out of other movies. I felt like I was getting hit with a cliché' club through most of it - and caught myself laughing out loud at how ridiculously BAD some of the dialog exchanges were. There IS one inkling of an original idea here (the genesis of the baddies) but that's about it. Everything else has been done before ... and probably too many times. The Deus Ex Machina factor plus the MacGuyver-esque solutions were really hard to stomach.
Overall, if you're bored and want to shut your brain down for 110 minutes, it's worth watching ... if only for the FX
The Not-So-Good: The writing is borderline unforgivably bad - with more than a few parts ripped right out of other movies. I felt like I was getting hit with a cliché' club through most of it - and caught myself laughing out loud at how ridiculously BAD some of the dialog exchanges were. There IS one inkling of an original idea here (the genesis of the baddies) but that's about it. Everything else has been done before ... and probably too many times. The Deus Ex Machina factor plus the MacGuyver-esque solutions were really hard to stomach.
Overall, if you're bored and want to shut your brain down for 110 minutes, it's worth watching ... if only for the FX
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- Budget
- $70,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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