A goofy bunch of US soldiers are dropped in France during WWII to blow up a tower in preparation for the invasion. Their plane is nearly blown up in a scene that takes forever. A couple of these soldiers make it to ground alive and somehow reunite. They meet a French girl and they make her take them to her village. Of course it's taken over by evil Nazi soldiers. The Nazi captain tries to rape the girl, that's when the good-natured US soldier intervenes. Because they are on a schedule he is sent to look around the Nazi base nearby. He discovers there some weird human experiments. For no good reason he brings back some filled syringe. Back at the village the captured Nazi ends up shooting one of the soldiers so our guy decides for no good reason to inject the dead soldier with the syringe. It causes him to revive and mutate of sorts. Plus this guy is hard to kill now.
Eventually our gang decides it's time to complete the mission, which now includes rescuing the captured little brother of the French girl, so these 4 goofs decide to take on the entire Nazi base. The Nazi captain has escaped back to base in the meantime not before getting shot in the face. He injects himself with the serum and turns into a supernazi as the rest of our soldiers have to battle nazis and zombie mutants.
A big budget horror movie with Nazis and zombies should work but Overlord really doesn't. The main problem is that it's told from the perspective of some dull kid soldier. As always the villains are far more interesting yet we learn nothing about them, nothing about the science and the experiments going on. The bits of horror are good, the bits of war OK and predictable. Had they edited this movie by 19 minutes it would have been much better. I was surprised to find out it was rated R, surely they could have taken advantage of the rating and given us harder stuff. This movie comes across much more like a PG-13 movie. A prequel that actually bothers to explain what the Nazi scientists were up to might work better.
Eventually our gang decides it's time to complete the mission, which now includes rescuing the captured little brother of the French girl, so these 4 goofs decide to take on the entire Nazi base. The Nazi captain has escaped back to base in the meantime not before getting shot in the face. He injects himself with the serum and turns into a supernazi as the rest of our soldiers have to battle nazis and zombie mutants.
A big budget horror movie with Nazis and zombies should work but Overlord really doesn't. The main problem is that it's told from the perspective of some dull kid soldier. As always the villains are far more interesting yet we learn nothing about them, nothing about the science and the experiments going on. The bits of horror are good, the bits of war OK and predictable. Had they edited this movie by 19 minutes it would have been much better. I was surprised to find out it was rated R, surely they could have taken advantage of the rating and given us harder stuff. This movie comes across much more like a PG-13 movie. A prequel that actually bothers to explain what the Nazi scientists were up to might work better.