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This horrible film has arrived as a particularly nasty new version of Call of Duty, intended to be played several days at a time by a group of unfortunate and unrepresentative players composed of dead-eyed and dead-eyed solitaires whose faces are destined to be screened the evening news. This is a strange and strangely humorous and explicit action-horror fantasy set in place during the Second World War – especially just before the landing of D-Day, hence the title, taken from the Operation Overlord, you see.
It is written by Billy Ray (who wrote the scenarios Captain Phillips and The Hunger Games) and directed by Australian director Julius Avery, all stemming from an original idea from producer JJ Abrams.
It is June 1944 and Jovan Adepo plays Boyce, a young soldier of the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army. He and his friends are parachuted into France in order to disable a radio tower placed at the top of a church, disrupting the communication network of the Nazis and helping the land invasion by the Allies. A more superficial device and plot MacGuffiny can hardly be imagined. But whatever.
Arrived in the nightmare chaos of occupied France, Boyce and his dirty half-dozen prepare to approach this church to make a very strange discovery: it is the site of Nazi medical experimentation , transforming civilian prisoners into super-soldiers in preparation for the coming 1000 years of the Reich.
This facetious nonsense has something deeply crass and everyone involved in this film may want to think about the fact that Nazi medical experimentation during the Second World War actually took place, in circumstances other than than these. It was a very real thing, not just a death metal horror film gag. Overlord leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth.
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