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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.