Rijndri
Load of rubbish!!
Stevecorp
Don't listen to the negative reviews
Grimossfer
Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%
iogaen
Average movie for a saturday night (alone, ha ha ...). Like the visuals, the story it's not to fancy, and the actors... they did their job quite well. What i didn't like is the part with Moldova and romanian language (Moldova is a romanian region that Romania lost it after the world war 2). I've seen high hills/ low mountains near the city. In Moldova there is no such thing... And the language ... some part romanian some part ... i don't know, a user stated is slovenian, could be. And the romanian language is mediocre from the allegedly native characters. One example: Bogdan it's with accent on "a" not on "o". That's what happens when you don't have at least one romanian consultant. Whatever, it was a good movie though.
Páiric O'Corráin
Spectral: Special Forces along with a DARPA scientist and a CIA agent battle invisible creatures which can kill by touch and seem to be composed of energy. Through special goggles they appear as ghost-like wraiths.Set in near future Moldova where the US has intervened in a Civil War. (The supporters of the over-thrown Government are referred to as Insurgents.) A devastated City and abandoned/ruined industrial plants give both the feel of Terminator and Alien. The Special Ops teams are equipped like Colonial Marines or even Starship Troopers. A Netflix original filmed in and around Budapest, I recognised some landmarks but I hope CGI was used to inflict the damage Good SF/Horror which at 1h 44m might have benefited from a 15m cut in running time. 7/10.
drazsika-716-814820
I found this movie randomly on NETFLIX when my 4 month old didn't let me sleep.
As the movie started I checked the IMDb rating and trailer on my phone with my free hand and I noticed it was shot in Budapest. So I gave it a go: my wife, very exhausted joined too.The good:
It was attention-taking most of the time although we laughed on the most emotional scenes.
The soldiers did move / act like soldiers from a sci-fi / near future world.
Budapest looked good with it's fantasy / gaming elements as a power plant / weapons research facility and huge buildings added to it.
Budapest has already been on screen Berlin, Paris, Moscow, etc. - but Chisinau, Moldova? That was fun!
I didn't regret watching it in this state.The neutral:
It was a B category movie. (I haven't seen one for a long while.)The bad:
Acting was terrible throughout (except for some soldiers). Okay, I've just said B category.
One of the key points is a US Army military engineer's conflict that his work that destroys a lot of things - shouldn't be used to destroy human life. Yeeeeep, sure.
speaking foreign language - a mixture of Romanian and Russian (the 2 languages spoken in Moldova, both being popular but you always use one of them with a person and you certainly don't mix the two during the same conversation) + adding Serbian (someone suggested Slovenian) words (why?)
The US Army seems to be on the same side with the elite Communist soldiers against the "insurgents": the people of Moldova. Although allies no local soldiers are taken to fight - rather a fragile office woman with no combat experience gets to go. 'Cause she is American, I guess.
US Army soldiers love children who shoot at them from AK-47.
Did I mention that the whole movie's premise was totally stupid?
If you shoot a movie in Budapest, using dozens of the major landmarks of the city - why wouldn't you call it Budapest? After all it's Eastern Europe too, isn't it?
I thought this was a but like a war movie where people will fight (we are supposed to be in a civil war) but it's only the GOOD US soldiers fighting... ...ghosts (?)All-in-all: 4,5 / 10.
farleysally
GREAT. Movies like this are usually ruined with bad humor and a bad cast full of popular celebs that's can't act. They did a good job making you want to figure out where it was going.