Synopsis
France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy a radio tower in a small village near the beaches of Normandy. After reaching their target, the surviving paratroopers realise that, in addition to fighting the Nazi troops that patrol the village, they also must fight against something else.
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Cast
- Jovan AdepoPrivate First Class Edward Boyce
- Wyatt RussellCorporal Lewis Ford
- Pilou AsbækCaptain Wafner
- Mathilde OllivierChloe
- John MagaroPrivate First Class Lyle Tibbet
- Iain De CaesteckerPrivate Morton Chase
- Bokeem WoodbineSergeant Rensin
- Dominic ApplewhitePrivate First Class Jacob Rosenfeld
- Jacob AndersonPrivate First Class Charlie Dawson
- Mark McKennaPrivate First Class Murphy
Recommendations
- 85
IGN
Overlord may not be the Call of Duty: Zombies movie you were expecting, but it is a damn entertaining film about the horror of war, and the thrills of a zombie invasion. - 83
IndieWire
A subliminal commentary on the science of human behavior through a supernatural lens, “Overlord” manages to satisfy expectations of pure escapism even as it digs deeper, and it’s a welcome alternative to so many movies that don’t even try. - 75
Consequence
There’s little camp or gimmickry to be found, which is refreshing for a sub-genre whose films so often resort to bad jokes and kitsch violence. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Pairing some of the spirit of schlocky Nazisploitation fare with a top-flight young cast and better-than-solid filmmaking, the movie is more mainstream that the midnight fare it sounds like on paper, if only by a bit. Horror fans should cheer. - 70
Screen Daily
What it lacks in novelty, subtlety or character, it partially makes up in sheer abandon. This is a big, loud, violent, gleefully gory sledgehammer of a film with, crucially, a careful tongue in cheek. - 60
Empire
Overlord injects a healthy dose of schlock into familiar war-movie tropes to create an entertainingly grungy hybrid, but it never quite kicks into overdrive. - 50
Variety
Even at its most suspenseful, when Jed Kurzel’s cello score stabs at the eardrums, Overlord feels familiar, a collage of cinematic nightmares checking off its influences. - 40
ScreenCrush
As a piece of moral commentary cloaked in a sci-fi gimmick, Overlord is uninspired. As an action thriller, it’s just aggressively boring. Maybe because it exhaustively recycles imagery from any number of genre films that came before it...or because the action sequences are bizarrely monotonous, save for the occasional bit of gory VFX.
