Movie

The Objective

2008 · 90 min

A tense, disorienting descent into paranoia and cosmic dread in a harsh, unfamiliar landscape.

Overview: A team of US Special Ops forces is dispatched to a remote mountain region of Afghanistan with orders to locate an influential Muslim cleric. While on the mission they find themselves lost in a Middle Eastern 'Bermuda Triangle' of ancient evil and faced with an enemy that none of them could have imagined.
How it feels: Dark, bleak, tense and eerie. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Survival, isolation, fate, mystery
Content: Strong violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
isolation
fate
mystery
freedom
Places: wilderness
military
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex none