A story lacks originality of ideas

"Outside the Wire" hits "action" and fails science fiction

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We are making this remark a second time, and the first was in the lousy George Clooney movie "The Midnight Sky".

Why is the near future so close in cinema?

In the past, the year is not specified. But, finally, the films have clearly indicated the years in an alarming pessimism, and the events in "Outside the Wire" 16 years from today.

The civil war is raging in Eastern Europe.

The film does not specify the causes of the war, whether it was a geographical or ideological conflict.

There is a runaway Lieutenant (Damson Idris) a drones operator who disobeys an order to hit a target, and with his decision, he kills two soldiers but saves the lives of 38 others.

The leadership decides to deport him and he is sent to a training unit, but in reality, a unit to carry out secret missions.

A runaway works with his new colleague, Captain Liu (Anthony Mackie), and the two are blacks, both of them curses, curses and curses, but Captain Leo is a robot, producing the fourth generation of Biotech and fugitive human beings, and you have the right to yawn because the idea has been consumed since the days of "Robocop" in 1987.

"Outside the Wire" is one of the original "Netflix" productions in the category of science fiction, which is medium level, but it is much better than the George Clooney disaster mentioned above.

Next to the military base where they are stationed, we see a group of soldiers harassing colleagues from the robots, which are clearly machines and machines that do not have human faces.

These robots are called "Gump", which is a very stupid name, as if the movie writer is laughing at himself, knowing that "Netflix" is buying without reviewing anything!

These robots, stupid in name and shape, are untapped elements in the movie, and we don't know why they exist.

The two go to Eastern Europe to hunt down a terrorist named Victor Koval (there is a problem with the names of some of the film's characters), portrayed by Dane, Belo Azbek.

Terrorist Koval wants secret nuclear codes, and there is no need to explain his motives, because this character, namely the Russian, Ukrainian or Eastern European terrorist, has been a "cliché" since the mid-1980s.

Liu brags about a fugitive because he is a robot and not a human, as the owner (iPhone or Samsung brags about a Nokia user)!

Liu uses realpolitik logic in his dialogue with a fugitive and takes pride in his distance from emotions, saying, "I have the power to break the rules."

In addition, he praises a fugitive for his decision, which disobeyed the beginning of the film, and described him as thinking outside the box, before contradicting himself by saying: "Maybe humans are not emotional enough."

The film is directed by Swedish Michael Huffstrom.

Written by Rowan Athal and Rob Lescombe.

It takes 50 minutes of the movie before we know Leo is a professional fighter, but that perk doesn't take the character away.

We see him hitting several people at once in an artificially robotic fashion, but he walks and runs like a human, not like the terrifying robotic run of Robert Patrick in the 1991 movie "Terminator".

Although he is a robot, he does not have any language skills, and we do not see him change his programming to use another place language, but we see everyone in that eastern European country speak fluent English!

Or as the terrorists of the 1990s told their international partners: "Your Russian is miserable, let's speak English!"

Thus, whoever chooses to watch this movie gets bogged down by being bombarded with (clichés) of the 1980s and 1990s, and outdated dialogues such as: "Sometimes, you have to act mean to see real change", or "Human beings can learn to be better."

Of course, there is the scene of Leo's dying, which is the worst dying scene in the short history of "Netflix" and the long history of (action) cinema, and it only reflects that Macy is fed up with the poor text and wants to receive his wages and move to his next project.

The film reproduces ideas from other films, most notably Training Day, which was about a policeman trained by a corrupt colleague.

In other words, the movie's authenticity is zero.

The special effects are modest and the performance is between average and bad. If you feel bored because of the story and not the fast-paced fighting scenes, remember that you are watching a product from the Netflix factory who dedicates its message that this platform is the cinema of the future and its content is more diverse than the diversity of all cinemas combined.

And if you choose to check out movie theaters, remember that you will not find a single genre absent on Netflix.

And remember that bad is what fills the halls, and this is one of the oddities of this time when an Internet platform that challenges its original productions of less than a decade, an industry that is more than 100 years old.

• Those who choose to watch this movie become embroiled in a barrage of clichés of the 1980s and 1990s, and outdated conversations.

• If you feel bored because of the story, remember that you are watching a product from the "Netflix" factory that dedicates its message that this platform is the cinema of the future.

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