Outside the Wire ending spoilers follow.
Outside the Wire takes place in the not-so-distant future, and yet the landscape of warfare has totally changed. In addition to drones, there are robo-soldiers called Gumps deployed alongside humans into dangerous battlefronts.
It s 2036, and a civil war is taking place in Eastern Europe, with Russia trying to reclaim areas of Ukraine, while Ukrainian rebel groups fight back. Captain Leo (Anthony Mackie) pairs up with drone pilot Thomas Harp (Damson Idris) and heads into a deadly militarized zone to locate a doomsday device before terrorist Victor Koval (
Game of Thrones Pilou Asbæk) does.
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Damson Idris as Harp, Anthony Mackie as Leo, in Outside the Wire. (Photo: Jonathan Prime/Netflix)
14 Jan 2021
The trailer for the new Netflix movie Outside the Wire makes it look like a by-the-numbers sci-fi action movie, but the filmmakers are aiming for something more ambitious, telling a story about the perils of drone warfare and artificial intelligence.
What happens when you drop a drone operator onto the battlefield?
The movie opens in the year 2036. American troops are deployed to Ukraine as the nation is engaged in hostilities with Russia. A young drone operator named Thomas Harp (Damson Idris) disobeys orders to launch a missile into the middle of a firefight. He ends the conflict but kills a pair of American Marines on the ground. His rationale? There were 40 men on the ground, and I saved thirty-eight.
Availability
Netflix January 15
The nature of that mission gets revealed bit by bit over the course of two fairly monotonous hours, during which Harp predictably discovers that war looks quite different on the ground than it did from the safety and comfort of a trailer in Nevada, thousands of miles away. Those fuzzy shapes on his monitor were real people, and now he’s one of them. Interspersed among the blunt moralism are battle sequences that, while passably exciting, mostly serve to illustrate just how ludicrously superhuman the average action-movie hero is. Despite taking place just 15 years from now,
Outside The Wire features robot soldiers that resemble