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Jan 15, 2021 · Outside the Wire. Glenn Kenny January 15, 2021. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. It is the year 2036. (If this review had a soundtrack, it would play a Hans-Zimmer-inflected variant of a dramatic “dum-DUM” musical bit right now.)
Outside the Wire | Rotten Tomatoes. TRAILER. List. Netflix. Watch Outside the Wire with a subscription on Netflix. A serviceable sci-fi diversion, Outside the Wire packs...
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Jan 14, 2021 · Review. Outside the Wire review – competent Netflix thriller toys with big ideas. Anthony Mackie and Damson Idris shoulder an overlong yet serviceable action film that pushes an...
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Outside the Wire is now playing exclusively on Netflix.
Outside the Wire features solid leads and sparse moments of enthralling action, but it's saddled with an ineffective gimmick and underserved by an undercooked script.
Set in the near-ish future, the film inserts the viewer into an Eastern Bloc civil war where the U.S. is playing ragged referee using robot soldiers (called "Gumps") to patrol a battle-ravaged No Man's Land. It's this premise, and of course the early reveal that Anthony Mackie's Captain Leo is a classified next-gen cyborg, that makes Outside the Wire a sci-fi film. But the more you watch the movie and marvel at the money Netflix is throwing at a mostly-disposable offering so that it can be a "sci-fi" film, the more you realize this didn't need to be a sci-fi movie at all. The messaging could have easily been conveyed with present-day humans.
Stepping in as the second in this bizarre "buddy cop" dynamic is Damson Idris's Lt. Thomas Harp, a drone pilot who's sent to the front as punishment for going against direct orders and launching a strike that kills two marines (but saves over two dozen others). It's here, with Harp, that the movie seems unable to decide on where to land regarding his "greater good" decision. Harp is painted as a cold solider who begins to see the pain his drone strikes have caused once immersed in the hell of actual combat (the dichotomy being that Mackie's android is more emotional and human than Harp) but the film also makes a point, several times, to say that Harp was right to do what he did.
After a while, the convoluted messaging and overdose of esoteric robotics protocol piles up into a movie that you can't even fully enjoy on a pure action level. Leo and Harp go off-book, "outside the wire," and into the war zone to stop Koval from getting his hands on nukes and it's all profoundly less interesting than it should be. Things are briefly able to lift off whenever Mackie's able to rampage as a one-man army, but mostly director Mikael Håfström (Escape Plan, The Rite) has crafted a very expensive, nice-looking dud that can walk arm-in-arm with other bloated and bland Netflix offerings.
Outside the Wire is too long, too impenetrable, and not fun enough to warrant its lofty man vs. machine gimmick. It's fun to watch Anthony Mackie assume the role of a smart, cordial killbot, but the film's occasionally exciting bits of action aren't enough to breathe life into this muddled mess of a story.
Jan 15, 2021 · “Outside the Wire” is a futuristic war movie that lacks imagination in the present. Outside the Wire Rated R for extreme robot-on-robot violence. Running time: 1 hour 54 minutes. Watch...
Jan 15, 2021 · When disgraced drone pilot, Lt. Harp (Damson Idris) is sent into a deadly militarized zone after disobeying orders, he finds himself working for Capt. Leo (Anthony Mackie), an android officer tasked with locating a doomsday device before insurgents do. — Netflix.
