Flow Sorry to say so but war movies mixed with horror rarely succeed. Besides Outpost and for some Dog Soldiers, not many such productions come to mind.I for one got bored out of my mind, I wanted to go with the flow, see what is about to happen next, but they made sure the viewer would hit a wall and stay there. It had potential, it had a good premise, even a good direction but the destination itself is laughable. It should have done better.All in all, The Objective is a pass from my point of view as it offers nothing new, nothing exciting, just a story said many times before under a different director but not a different direction. Trust me on this one. Cheers!

connda I liked the film. It's eerie and unsettling but it could have done better. The movie leaves too many open ended questions and at the end I feel like I did after watching X-files -- I want more answers.The desert is just haunting and adds much to the substance of the plot. Combined the contrasts of the desert Bedouins and their beliefs and cultures, and this movie takes on a realistic tone. You come away from the film wanted to get behind the scenes to see and comprehend that force that the soldiers are dealing with. I would actually like to see a sequel that takes that plot a little further, but unfortunately it looks as though I'm one of the few reviewer who really liked this film.

robert-temple-1 This is an eerie film relying upon a mysterious style and a very wild and remote filming location, namely the southern wastes and deserts of Morocco. The story is ostensibly set in the mountains of Afghanistan, clearly too dangerous as a place to shoot. According to the story, the CIA has detected an alien presence in the Afghanistan mountains, and they know more about it than they are letting on. They send a special ops agent in a major's uniform to command a platoon of special forces 'grunts' and go in search of the alien base. It is in reality a suicide mission, from which no one is expected to return, but the soldiers aren't told that. Mysterious lights begin to appear, which rush towards people and then vanish upwards suddenly. 'Ghosts' and phantoms are glimpsed. The soldiers encounter an elderly shaman sitting alone in a cave. He has a small gold object shaped like an aircraft sitting near him, which the CIA man pockets. It is an enlarged model of the famous gold object found in Colombia, which van Däniken claimed was a model of an ancient spaceship. How this got from South America to Afghanistan is not explained, but then the whole point of the film is that nothing is explained, and it is meant to be like that. Eventually we realize that what are based in the mountains are 'vimanas', namely alien spacecraft, 'vimana' being an ancient Sanskrit word. Ancient Hindu texts refer to these flying machines of the gods in antiquity, and this subject has been discussed in many books for nearly a century. Many UFO enthusiasts claim that vimanas were ancient UFOs. Because they were said to work with 'mercury engines', they have also been associated with the attempts by the Nazi SS to create advanced aircraft and power sources using mercury, and it is not unlikely that the Nazis were attempting to replicate the vimanas described in the ancient texts, since it is known that Himmler and Hitler were advised by some Sanskrit scholars, in connection with their racial mania for 'Ancient Aryans'. Hitler and Himmler were also convinced that Tibet was the origin of Aryan civilisation, hence their many research expeditions to Tibet, and a setting of a base in the neighbouring mountains of Afghanistan fits in with this idea. The film was written and directed by Daniel Myrick, who made THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999). He specializes in scaring people by the use of suggestion rather than by explicitly showing them things. That approach draws its inspiration from German expressionist films, from CAT PEOPLE (1942, see my review), and also from Hitchcock, and it can enable an effective suspense film to be made on a very low budget. This film is effective and intriguing and is a good example of how you can make something out of nothing if you just have some imagination, determination, and ability. As for the CIA involvement, they firmly maintain that extraterrestrial life is 'the ultimate security issue', and they have been acting in accordance with that view since the late 1940s. And when you have spooks dealing with something 'ultimate', watch out.

siderite I am torn between a good mark and a bad grade, but this is certainly not an average film. It is low budget, but well played and executed. Its story is captivating and the atmosphere really spooky, but not explaining anything. It is basically a mood film, something that enters your bones and doesn't let go until the weird ending that just makes you feel you are still in the movie, making it originally effective.That being said, you can't enjoy this film if you read any spoilers, so stop reading reviews and watch the film. Its main strength is its main flaw as well: all sense is left to the imagination of the viewer, while the technical details are provided by the film makers. Basically, this film is what you want it to be. I would go for sci-fi thriller, but then that would be my favourite genre. I can tell you for sure it is not a romance, but that's as far as I can go :) Try watching it at night with the lights off and enjoy the feel of it.