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Review: Overlord

A movie about Nazi zombies -- or Nazbies as I like to call them -- isn't what you'd expect Hollywood to release on the Remembrance Day weekend, but I'm glad they did.

Why? The world needed a respectable Nazbie movie; one that takes place during the Second World War, on the eve of D-Day, which was called Operation: Overlord, hence this Nazbie movie's title.

Longest run-on sentence in history. Doubtful. But I'll get there...

Overlord is a slick B-movie from producer J.J. Abrams, who had the decency to make this an R-rated affair complete with bloody bullet hits and gory Nazbie action. And Abrams and director Julius Avery saw fit to not overdue the Nazbies, but made Overlord as much a World War 2 man-on-a-mission movie as it is a gruesome horror film.

Some might take issues with this, but I found it refreshing. I got my war-movie fix AND my Nazbie fix at the same time. Kudos to the fine folks at Bad Robot for making this happen.

Overlord is well shot and edited, so the 110-minute run time flies by. Money was spent on this one too, so everything looks good and authentic, at least as far as I could tell. The action scenes are well staged, loud and exciting. Ditto the horror sequences. Avery's got the chops to handle a decent genre movie.

His cast is solid as well, especially Wyatt Russell. He is very much his father's son, and does a great job channelling the Kurt Russell we know and love from movies like The Thing. Sign the man up for more Big Trouble and Snake Plissken movies right now.

This is a great matinee or Friday night flick, best enjoyed with a beer or two before or after the show. Or both. Whatever turns your crank. I'm giving it a Good, and look forward to seeing it again.
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