Director : Nic Mathieu
Story : Ian Fried
Music : Junkie XL
Camera : Bojan Bazelli
Company : Legendary Pictures
Running :107 minutes
Country : United States
"The less you know, the better.." It's a common phrase used in all walks of life, and it applies perfectly to Nic Mathieu's Spectral. This high-tech scifi film was originally planned as a theatrical release but has since been relegated to Netflix, possibly because it's a movie based on a great idea that overshadows everything that could've made it great.
A war story with a science fiction twist, Spectral does its best to deliver on that promise. But as the film goes along it's a frustrating mix of high and low. The highs are many of the action scenes, which pit American soldiers armed like high-tech Rambos against an unstoppable ghost army. The lows are the rest of the movie, where the characters talk endlessly until they miraculously figure out what these beings actually are.
Of course, in a movie like this, the audience is doing the same thing. We desperately want to know what these beings are and how our heroes are going to defeat them. It's a nice mystery to have as a baseline for everything around it, but that's almost all Spectral has to it. Almost everything in the movie is in service of answering these questions and, unfortunately, it comes at the expense of character building, emotional stakes, or a compelling story.
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