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• Devon B

  
  There's a point, around the half hour mark, where this movie may or may not lose you. It's the type of scene that shows how the lack of a big budget can cripple a sci-fi movie. The Objective is a schizophrenic little film that wants to be more than what it's… More
  There's a point, around the half hour mark, where this movie may or may not lose you. It's the type of scene that shows how the lack of a big budget can cripple a sci-fi movie. The Objective is a schizophrenic little film that wants to be more than what it's unfortunately capable of. The film takes place in Afghanistan, as a CIA agent has taken a group of special ops soldiers on an undisclosed mission to find some supposed atomic weapons of mass destruction. As the group travels further into the country, they encounter more and more maddening things, including strange lights and ghosts from centuries past. Daniel Myrick (who also wrote The Blair Witch Project) writes and directs what seems to be an attempt to capture lightning twice, as the film attempts the what-is-happening realism that made Blair Witch such a pioneering work. Unfortunately, it's been ten years since the Blair Witch Project came out, and movies in this style have been pretty played out. This film has several other strikes against it, including sci-fi channel movie-of-the-week quality special effects and at times, student film quality acting by some of the leads (really, there were times towards the end where the performances became laughable). The film does however, start off quite strong and I can't fully dismiss it as a whole. Also, I found the subject matter to be quite interesting, and even if the ending practically torpedoes the entire film, I can't say I didn't enjoy it overall.

• Dead A

  
  Totally bullshit. Cheap movie.

• Jani H

  
  "Dead men don't follow orders" Directed by Daniel Myrick, the man behind "Blair Witch Project", "The Objective" stands out as an ambitious and interesting movie. But it has it's flaws, drags on a bit and leaves the viewer cold in the end. The… More
  "Dead men don't follow orders" Directed by Daniel Myrick, the man behind "Blair Witch Project", "The Objective" stands out as an ambitious and interesting movie. But it has it's flaws, drags on a bit and leaves the viewer cold in the end. The story is about a Special Ops group, lead by a CIA agent, on a relatively unclear mission in Afghanistan. It starts as an interesting mystery but in the end, "The Objective" leaves too much unexplained. A few hints are given here and there but with a bit more effort, this could've worked better. "I seem to know the direction but not the destination"

• Deb S

  
  A classified and dangerous mission set in Afghanistan focusing on American soldiers encountering something much more than just the Taliban that makes us question whether or not we should fear our government, our military, or something entirely different. Stunning cinematography!

• Barry L

  
  Pretty much run of the mill CIA/Special forces op film to start with or so I thought. The true reason for them being there was slightly different....have the Taliban got a nuke? are they aliens? what the hell is going on?....well you never quite know and that let the film down at the… More
  Pretty much run of the mill CIA/Special forces op film to start with or so I thought. The true reason for them being there was slightly different....have the Taliban got a nuke? are they aliens? what the hell is going on?....well you never quite know and that let the film down at the end. Still a very well worked movie with an odd ending.

• alan j

  
  This is an interesting movie...can best be described as "Apocalypse Now Lite". Instead of a journey through the jungle, its the desert in Afghanistan. The storyteller is a CIA op, and his mission is to discover what is the identity of a heat signature detected from a spy… More
  This is an interesting movie...can best be described as "Apocalypse Now Lite". Instead of a journey through the jungle, its the desert in Afghanistan. The storyteller is a CIA op, and his mission is to discover what is the identity of a heat signature detected from a spy satellite. Is it a nuclear device owned by the taliban or something more evil, more sinister?? That's the crux of the plot..and all the actors, while relatively unknown, put forth a fine effort. As the band of soldiers trudge further on their mission, strange things begin to occur, and they ultimately find themselves lost in a bermuda triangle area of sorts within the desert. The tension slowly builds as the weirdness factor increases..boiling over to a strange conclusion..open to much interpretation...you may not understand this movie..but its too interesting to turn away..

• ken j

  
  From of the makers of the Blair Witch Project comes this movie that i could only place it somewhere between sci fi and supernatural suspense as a group of soldiers and one CIA agent are led into the desert searching for what they think is a religious group leader only to end up in the… More
  From of the makers of the Blair Witch Project comes this movie that i could only place it somewhere between sci fi and supernatural suspense as a group of soldiers and one CIA agent are led into the desert searching for what they think is a religious group leader only to end up in the bermuda triangle of the middle east. starts off slow and builds from there worth a watch if your into very subtle suspense terror type movies come with your standard twist ending that left me kinda wondering what just happened

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