A near future sci-fi set in the European conflict in Ukraine where Russians, Ukrainians, warlords and resistance militia all engage in a battle for control. US troops are ostensibly "peacekeepers" in the region an have developed a large DMZ (inside the wire). In reality, the US military is using the conflict to develop and test military technology, including autonomous soldiers. The crux of the conflict is centered around access to former Soviet Union nuclear missiles, of which all parties are looking. And on the US side, a rogue drone pilot and an autonomous soldier are in the middle of the mix. I think this is supposed to be an ethical dilemma, and is supposed to be revealing a hard truth about war. But the supposed hard truth is that mechanized war only increases war and the amount of death. This seems to me to be self evident. So while the sci-fi imagery is pretty interesting and the imagination of what war might look like only 10 years in the future seems on point, the message of the movie falls flat.
3 stars (out of 5)
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