BLACK OPS
Writer / Director: Tom Patton
Writer / Director: Tom Patton
June 2020 / 102 min
Horror / Sci-fi
Streaming: HULU
The movie tagline grabs you: The Only Way Out Is Up
A Black Ops team, known as Hell's Bastards, is sent on a mission. There is a civil war happening around them. They are on some kind of recon assignment. One of the orders they have to follow is that on their way in, they are not to let anyone live ...When they breach a camp and take out the enemy, they also find civilians, prisoners. Following orders is not always easy. However, there is no way around following orders.
They are warned, however. The only way out is up.
The military team finds a doorway that leads to a staircase. And this is where the story unfolds. On a staircase. The staircase is never ending. Whether climbing up or down. It seems like an eternal "circle" of the same stairs. The same steps.
As the unnerved group continues to search for a way out, they are -- one by one -- forced to face and, in a sense, admit or atone for the sins they'd committed. The horrors of war, the horrors of their past, the crimes that their lives have become!
There are posted Exits on the stairwell. Crossing through the door is not the way to freedom. It is not a way out. There is only one way out. The way out is up.
For a movie I am assuming was made on a shoe-string budget, (I mean it literally takes place in a stairwell), I liked it! The filming is interesting. Blue, green, and red lenses are used. The effect gives the movie an overall cold feel. Icy. The acting is pretty darn good. The characters are developed enough that you care what happens to them.
Phillip Tomasso
Author of the sci-fi / horror novel ABSOLUTE ZERO
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