Spectral

2016
PG-13
1h 47m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

66K

YOUR RATING

A sci-fi/thriller story centered on a special-ops team that is dispatched to fight supernatural beings.

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A sci-fi/thriller story centered on a special-ops team that is dispatched to fight supernatural beings.A sci-fi/thriller story centered on a special-ops team that is dispatched to fight supernatural beings.A sci-fi/thriller story centered on a special-ops team that is dispatched to fight supernatural beings.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

66K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The APC's are made by Tatra in The Czech Republic. Tatra uses a unique center still frame with the springs running across the body of the vehicle, rather than front to rear. You can clearly see the unusual result of that suspension at the 25 minute mark when the APC stops.

Goofs
When the general briefs Mark Clyne at the beginning at the film, he mentions that insurgents are in the north near the border with Russia. Moldova has no borders with Russia, it borders Ukraine in the north.

Quotes
Clyne: I think you're reaching.
Fran Madison: Our business requires us to make suppositions.
Clyne: My business requires us to prove them. Your technician's job is to find glitches, so, he sees glitches. Your job is to find the enemy, so, you see the enemy. Locals believe in spirits, so they see spirits. Everyone is biased in one way or another. So, my answer to you right now is that we lack data to support any theory.

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Referenced in Flix Forum: Spectral (2019)

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Featured review

7/10

Cliché after cliché, but entertaining

The movie might even make sense if you are not Romanian or Moldovan, but that's a detail that is not really important. The plot is pretty standard: American military group, separated by the main force, fighting for survival against an unstoppable enemy. Kinda like Aliens, but low budget.

I thought the acting was fine, the sound and special effects were OK and the story was decent. It had some "Ugh!" moments, in particular the ending and anything that they were trying to say in Romanian/Russian or about the political situation in the "Moldovan War". Lol!

Other than that, it's pretty obvious what is going on and what is going to happen. The only "wait, this could be cool!" moment was when they were forced to relocate. I thought it was going to turn into some sort of complex story. It didn't. My assessment: average action sci-fi.