In the turbulent skies above, packed inside a Douglas C-47 troop plane, a squad of American soldiers wait anxiously, trading salty barbs, trying not to puke, and mostly failingвЂ¦ As cigar chomping Sergeant Rensin ( Bokeem Woodbine) yells at them over the noisy prop engines, their mission is a simple but dangerous one: they must go behind enemy lines and blow up a Nazi radio tower (blocking Allied communications) on top of an centuriesвЂ™ old French church by 06:00. We open on black and white newsreel footage of marching Nazis, blitzed cities and concentration camps that dissolves into fleets of allied battleships, fighter planes and bombers, all roaring towards France in Operation Overlord, or D-Day as itвЂ™s better-known. No, this time around Abrams and his Bad Robot crew have played it straight up вЂ“ Overlord is a gruesome action horror, with its jackboots firmly planted in B-Movie zombie-(ish) schlock. AbramsвЂ™ mystery box smelling funky and circled with flies.

And thatвЂ™s a good thing, the Netflix-backed train wreck The Cloverfield Paradox (2018), a gutted sci-fi horror film, splashed with Adobe After Effects made Cloverfield monsters left J.J. As they battle Nazis in an occupied village, a much darker force threatens to change the balance of power forever.

At the bloodiest height of WW2, a squad of American GIs are sent to France, deep behind enemy lines their mission is simple: destroy an Axis radio tower on top of an old church.

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