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Outside the Wire review: Netflix’s android action movie raises big questions - Polygon

Outside the Wire review: Netflix’s android action movie raises big questions - Polygon

Outside the Wire review: Netflix’s android action movie raises big questions - Polygon
Jan 16, 2021 1 min, 19 secs

The latest movie to explore the ethical ramifications of drones, Netflix’s future-war feature Outside the Wire, stumbles with its inability to engage with those ideas, even as it prioritizes them in its world-building.

Anthony Mackie’s parallel career trajectories as a military service member (in The Hurt Locker and as Sam Wilson/Falcon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe) and a science fiction hero (Altered Carbon season 2, Synchronic) finally overlap in Outside the Wire, Netflix’s latest action movie about the U.S.

Outside the Wire is set in eastern Europe, where a violent civil war has festered and spread: Criminal warlord Viktor Koval (Pilou Asbæk) wants to make Ukraine a part of Russia, and has received support from the Kremlin to wage his terrorist attacks and enlist others to his cause.

military have developed a new killing machine, and gave it a human face.

For the first hour or so of its run time, Outside the Wire seems far more complex, and less blandly patriotic, than it actually is.

military, with its endless financing, vast resources, and moral grandstanding, is really worthy of such prestige.

He’s clearly wondering who he’s really fighting for, and who he’s really fighting.

It’s disappointing, then, that Outside the Wire pivots into a predictable twist that undoes that subversion.

Outside the Wire proposes these classic genre questions, but doesn’t deliver suitable answers, and the unsatisfying patness of its ending is a disappointingly tidy conclusion for what had the potential to be a far more challenging film

Outside the Wire is streaming on Netflix now

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