The year is 1945. The setting is the Eastern Front, near the end of World War II. A platoon of Soviet soldiers—led by the stoic Sergeant (Alexander Mercury)—receives a frantic radio transmission. It is a distress call from a fellow Russian unit trapped in a remote village near the German border.
Detractors argue that the film has no character development. You never really learn the soldiers' names beyond "the Sergeant" and "Dmitri." The dialogue is sparse, the acting is stiff (mostly due to the Dutch/Russian language barrier), and the found-footage logic breaks constantly (why is he still filming while running from a saw-blade monster?). frankenstein-s army -2013-
