Overlord

A team of soldiers parachute into Nazi-occupied territory to take down a transmitter. In the storm of battle, they discover something far worse – secret experiments the Nazis have been conducting that could change the war forever. This hybrid of war movie and horror movie is familiar stuff, though done with a reasonable amount of polish. It tends to work better as a war movie, particularly in the first ten-fifteen minutes as the paratroopers fly over Europe under heavy fire and then jump into danger, then later on, as the monstrous experiments are pretty familiar iconography at this point and the squad of soldiers never quite transcend their stereotypes of “the jewish one”, “The Italian one” etc. But while it doesn’t exactly innovate or surprise, it’s still effective in hitting the familiar notes and getting the familiar thrills and action.