Outpost

This, as a pre-text, is a fucking awesome film. A bunch of international ex-special forces mercenaries get given a 48 hour quick job to escort a man to find some natural resources in the heart of... Ukraine? Or some cold country, I don't really remember and it's irrelevant. Anyways, they get there and the place is haunted by FREAKIN' SUPERHERO NAZI ZOMBIES OF DOOM +5. I nearly came just reading about it.

I was thinking, ya know what, this film is going to have no storyline and I'm not going to care. But the film surprised me. The was very little character building, but enough that you really knew a lot about each character and you cared for them in their own little scummy/un-scummy way and i like that. There was a storyline, a fairly good one, and it had some quite cool science to it too. And a little history lesson, even if there were CG soldiers in a film supposedly made in 1943 or summit...

There were some very good twists to the film too, and they were refreshing as well as very original in places. It was just a very good mixture, new story ideas and good dialogue mixed in with some well-placed cheesiness. It kinda had to be there, super-nazi's vs. mercenary special forces? Kinda REALLY had to have some cheese, would be against the law not to.

I know this is kind of a short review, but it's difficult to think of any more to write... It was a good film with a good story and some good action, it's really a shame this film wasn't more wide-spread to be honest. It has an obviously british director, but with it's different nationalities and universal european settings it could be popular in a fair few countries and rightly so.

As a score, i'd give it a good 8/10. It was a fantastic pre-text and it pulled it off believably without resorting to catch-all and fantastical explanations, it made it feel very much like it was kind of possible. Well acted, well made and well worth watching. If i hadn't already downloaded it, i'd go out and buy it.