The amount of new content Netflix puts out is sometimes hard to keep up with. Some weeks ago they released the Netflix Original movie Spectral. It is a science fiction/action movie with supernatural elements. When the army is fighting a war in Slovenia one of the soldiers is killed in a mysterious way by something which isn’t visible to the naked eye. Dr. Mark Clyne (James Badge Dale), a researcher at DARPA, is asked to analyze the event, which was recorded by a special system, and find a solution. Are the things they are seeing advanced camouflage suits or are they dealing with something completely different?
The movie is mainly set in a war-torn city, which is very similar to the environments in the Gear of War games, with old architecture which still has beauty, despite the destruction by war. The soldier try a new way of approaching the problem, with no one who can help them and only the expertise of a researcher to guide them. This is a slick-looking movie which will be able to entertain, but which comes short when it comes to story and characters. It lacks depth when it comes to that, which makes this pretty much a cookie cutter actionmovie which doesn’t really succeed in standing out.
I agree – it’s impossible to keep up with Netflix releases! Thanks for putting Spectral on my radar though, I don’t think it’s the movie for me but I reckon my video-gamer husband would love it!
Hope he’ll enjoy it a bit more than I did 🙂