The Objective is brought to us by Dan Myrick (the guy behind The Blair Witch Project). I'm a big fan of Blair Witch, so my expectations were high. I guess I had forgotten Dan also brought us Blair Witch 2. The Objective trailer peaked my interest so when I watched the film, I was ready to be impressed. That feeling lasted through the set up and well into the middle of the film.
"In the supernatural thriller The Objective, writer-director Daniel Myrick locates the action in a remote mountain region of Afghanistan, where a team of US Special Ops forces is dispatched with the ostensible orders of locating 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."
There is sort of a Blair Witch dynamic as the group gets smaller, no one knows what's happening, they argue and whatnot, terror ensues. I was disappointed in the explanation of the real reason why these soldiers were deployed on the mission. The actual appearance of the unknown entity causing the deaths & disappearances wasn't horrific or memorable for that matter. The acting was pretty on point, the writing was decent (although I thought the CIA agent voiceover providing exposition came off pretty lazy), it wasn't directed or shot poorly, but all in all it was just okay. Maybe if I knew nothing of Blair Witch, I would have expected less and thought this film better.
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