2008 · action · horror · sci-fi
The Objective
Directed by Daniel Myrick1h 30m2008
A team of US Special Ops forces is dispatched to a remote mountain region of Afghanistan with orders to locate an influential Muslim cleric. While on the mission they find themselves lost in a Middle Eastern 'Bermuda Triangle' of ancient evil and faced with an enemy that none of them could have imagined.
Our read: The Objective (2008) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive action · horror · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured action / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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