A military special operations team, led by a CIA case officer, are on a mission in the harsh and hostile terrain of Afghanistan where they find themselves in a Middle Eastern "Bermuda Triang... Read allA military special operations team, led by a CIA case officer, are on a mission in the harsh and hostile terrain of Afghanistan where they find themselves in a Middle Eastern "Bermuda Triangle" of ancient evil.A military special operations team, led by a CIA case officer, are on a mission in the harsh and hostile terrain of Afghanistan where they find themselves in a Middle Eastern "Bermuda Triangle" of ancient evil.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination
Storyline
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- TriviaThe IR Camera that Ben uses has the same settings (.95/20/0 degrees C), day or night wherever and whenever it was used because the on-loan IR camera was dropped and broke during the filming. Then IR footage was created using video effects to resemble actual IR camera footage. (According to director Daniel Myrick).
- GoofsDuring the failed helicopter extraction at 0:33 the team uses a couple of great techniques to make them more visible to the inbound helicopter crew. They attach "chem-lites" to their gear and with one attached to a length of chord, twirl the chem-lite into what is referred to as a "buzz-saw". The only problem - they use green chem-lites which are virtually invisible to night vision goggles the aircrews would be using. True buzz-saws and other markings are done with either red or infrared (IR) chem-lites which are very pronounced under NVGs and harder (red) or impossible(IR) to see with the naked eye.
- Quotes
Benjamin Keynes: Habban is highly respected among the local population. He is considered the spiritual force that helped the Mujahideen defeat the Soviets.
Sgt. Vincent Degetau: [mocking the CIA operative] I thought the CIA was the spiritual force that helped them defeat the Soviets?
[chuckles]
Benjamin Keynes: That depends on, uh, your definition of spiritual, Seargent.
[dead-eye stare toward Degetau]
It's low budget and fairly obscure, punching above its weight with superbly haunting location shots (Atlas Mountains Morocco) and tight audio FX / Soundtrack. The Special forces soldiers are believable too, kudos to the military adviser, and the acting's not bad too.
The best think about 'The Objective'is the brooding pacing, It never scared me, more just left of field enough to make you think - this is and a bit different, that's a bit odd, this ain't Hollywood etc... and all the better for it... not surprising then to learn its from one of the directors from Blair Witch...
On the flip side the heavy narration gives it a TV movie feel and though it kind of works in the end hmmmm, I dunno there was still a bit much. Narrative's a bit al over thae place, and whilst some might shout "rubbish" or IMDb fav "worst movie ever" I'll go for "fun for what it is" and that is on a par with an extended version of your fav X-file's/Outer limits episode.... Absolutely Recommended I thoroughly enjoyed 'The Objective'
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- Official site
- Languages
- Also known as
- Битва у пустелі
- Filming locations
- Morocco(as Afghanistan)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $4,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $95
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $95
- Feb 8, 2009
- Gross worldwide
- $95
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1