Onslaught

This movie has no right looking this gorgeous. It's stylized and gritty and it is both relatable in that the characters behave mostly like people and in the same time hyper-idealized because the bad guys do not. The effect work is lovely, the settings are gorgeous and the plot is utterly ludicrous. I did enjoy this thoroughly and I highly recommend it to everyone.

Watched [08](https://letterboxd.com/fixateandbinge/diary/for/2026/09/08/) [Sep](https://letterboxd.com/fixateandbinge/diary/for/2026/09/) [2026](https://letterboxd.com/fixateandbinge/diary/for/2026/) With ONSLAUGHT, Adam Wingard's follow-up to his slick 2014 actioner THE GUEST, the magic — as is so often the case with sequels — fails on nearly every level to connect. Even the addition of Dan Stevens in a supporting role as septuagenarian Hans Kimmler — a character who appears to be an amalgamation of Josef Mengele and Dr. Strangelove — fails to land. In fact, given the character's parodic underpinnings, he might have worked better in a comedy. The set-up seems oddly familiar: genetically engineered super soldiers escape a nearby military bunker and go on a pointless killing spree, murdering everything that moves in their path. It's 1992's sci-fi actioner UNIVERSAL SOLDIER, except...