"Outside the Wire" passes the time, and there are worse crimes than being watchable and disposable.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 22, 2021

A disappointingly tidy conclusion for what had the potential to be a far more challenging film.

| Jan 19, 2021

Despite strong lead performances and some intriguing themes, this rarely rises above being a serviceable action thriller.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 18, 2021

This film really wants to be smart... [But] it's just a lot of death and destruction.

| Jan 16, 2021

"Outside the Wire" is an efficient, fast-paced rollercoaster ride that's smart and buoyed by a razor-sharp screenplay and two magnetic performances.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 16, 2021

The half-brained drudgery that Håfström's delivers here only leaves you with the regret that this war wasn't more fun to watch.

| Original Score: C | Jan 16, 2021

The visual effects are decent, the cast is better than decent, and that's all, folks.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 15, 2021

Outside the Wire can charitably be compared to the kind of "B" movies that studios used to churn out, and is best consumed by tempering expectations accordingly. Because unlike its futuristic hero, there's nothing special about it.

| Jan 14, 2021

There's a more interesting film buried here and it's the small nuggets of debate about the military and artificial intelligence that keep us going through the bloated, almost two-hour runtime.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 14, 2021

A packed Friday night theater would have bust out in applause.

| Jan 14, 2021

It's entertaining enough, but you wish it had something quirkier, more messily human, more imaginatively drawn outside the lines to it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 13, 2021

The film's arguments against endless war end up seeming more than a bit disingenuous.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 13, 2021

Like many Netflix productions, Outside The Wire assumes you're barely paying attention.

| Original Score: C | Jan 13, 2021

Arriving like a discarded Fox television pilot from 2010, director Mikael Hafstrom's action film is forgettable from top to bottom.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 13, 2021

An alarmist rise-of-the-machines premise points to a "Terminator"-like future, with very different results, in this serviceable sci-fi war movie.

| Jan 13, 2021

Proves to be a fairly conventional military-action pic despite its moments of Asimovian philosophy.

| Jan 13, 2021