Spectral (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Spectral |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nic Mathieu |
| script | George Nolfi |
| production |
Jon Jashni , Thomas Tull |
| music | Junkie XL |
| camera | Bojan Bazelli |
| cut | Jason Ballantine |
| occupation | |
Spectral is a US-American military science fiction - feature film by director Nic Mathieu . The film, produced by Legendary Pictures , was released on Netflix on December 9, 2016 .
action
In a war-torn city, a Delta Forces unit is killed by an invisible creature.
In Virginia , DARPA employee Dr. Mark Clyne from his supervisor that he should fly to Moldova . The US military is involved in a war there and their knowledge as a developer of hyperspectral cameras is needed.
On the air base on the outskirts of Chisinau he meets the Commander General Orland and CIA - Agent Fran Madison. They show him recordings made by the helmet cameras of the soldiers in action. Each shows a transparent humanoid apparition that kills the soldiers by touching them. Orland believes there is more to this than interference and wants to hear Clyne's opinion before giving the pictures to his superiors in the United States. Fran Madison, however, suspects that it is active camouflage technology. However, not even DARPA, the leader in this field of research, has come close to developing a working technique. Madison is supposed to collect a sample for her superiors.
To get more accurate shots of the anomalies, Clyne mounts a larger version of his hyperspectral camera on an armored vehicle. He and Madison take a squad to the zone where the missing Utah team was last reported. There they discover that all team members have been killed. They too are attacked, but cannot damage the anomalies with conventional weapons and retreat with heavy casualties. On the way back, their two armored vehicles are destroyed by landmines and their team injured.
They flee to an abandoned factory where they find two children who have barricaded themselves. The anomalies attempt to follow them into the factory, but are stopped by a ring of iron filings that surrounds the entire complex. Clyne modifies her camera to make the anomalies visible. They finally manage to call in reinforcements.
In the place agreed as the withdrawal point, they encounter the reinforcement, but also the anomalies. Using modified grenades with iron filings, they manage to stop the anomalies long enough for them to escape by helicopter. During the flight, they learn that the base has been attacked. You fly to a civilian bunker that is controlled by the Allied Moldovan troops. There Clyne found out that the anomalies were Bose-Einstein condensates . This explains their ability to move through walls and kill people from the cold - but also why they are stopped by iron filings and ceramics (in the armor of vehicles).
During a night shift, together with Orland and surviving military technicians, he develops pulse weapons that can break up the condensate. The next morning they make their way to a power station, as this is the only one that can supply enough energy to generate the condensate.
While the soldiers launch an attack on the roof, Clyne and Madison make their way inside the facility to find the source. They discover a recently abandoned laboratory where the scientists scanned people at the molecular level and then printed them out of the condensate. The brains of the test subjects were removed along with the central nervous system and connected to a machine that controls the condensate copies. Shortly before the victory of the anomalies, Clyne succeeds in activating the self-destruction of the machine and thus deactivating the condensate copies. Then he separates the brains and human remains from the machine in order to give them peace.
Without the anomalies, the US Army and Moldovan Armed Forces can now fight the insurgents together to regain control of the city. Defense ministry workers are sent to the laboratories in the power plant to take the machine apart, understand it and use it for their own purposes.
Clyne says goodbye to Madison and General Orland and makes his way back to Virginia.
Cast and dubbing
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Mark Clyne | James Badge Dale | Dennis Schmidt-Foss |
| Fran Madison | Emily Mortimer | Sabine Falkenberg |
| Maj. Sessions | Max Martini | Dieter B. Gerlach |
| Sgt. Great | Clayne Crawford | Asad Black |
| General Orland | Bruce Greenwood | Oliver Stritzel |
| sari | Ursula Parker | Christina Wöllner |
| Alessio | Cory Hardrict | Julien Haggége |
| Capt. Marco Cabrera | Gonzalo Menendez | Sebastian Christoph Jacob |
| Bogdan | Aaron Serban | |
| Dr. Mindala | Stephen Root | Reinhard Scheunemann |
| Sgt. Davis | Philip Bulcock | Johann Fohl |
| Sgt. Comstock | Ryan Robbins | Peter Flechtner |
| Sgt. Chen | Louis Ozawa Changchien | Benjamin Kiesewetter |
| Efrem | Mike Bodie | Johannes Berenz |
| Sgt. Steve McFadden | Jimmy Akingbola | Johann Fohl |
| Talbot | Dylan Smith | Gerrit Hamann |
| doctor | Filip Watermann | Andi Krösing |
criticism
“In the cinema you might have been annoyed about the film. Against the background that Spectral should actually have been a movie that you can now watch right on the couch at home, it is, however, a passable film pleasure. An interesting premise is unfortunately lost in an unsatisfactory resolution. "
Web links
- Spectral in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Spectral atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sebastian Lorenz: On the trail of the invisible enemy . In: robots-and-dragons.de . December 9, 2016, accessed December 27, 2016.