Project Arbiter
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Created by a group of passionate and innovative filmmakers and shot on the RED One camera system, Project Arbiter is a 20-minute sci-fi espionage short film that demonstrates how a small quiet victory tips the balance of power and foretells the outcome of World War II.
Set in 1943, the height of WWII, this is a story about an experimental O.S.S. unit code named Project Arbiter. Thousands of feet above Northern Europe a small plane carries a skeleton crew of the Allies best, including Special Fields Op. Captain Joseph Colburn. His handler, Major Thomas Hardy does a final review of the mission's grim intel: infiltrate a mysterious villa on the Polish border and uncover its secrets. Colburn emerges donning a prototype suit, which can temporarily render its occupant invisible. As the plane's bay doors howl open Colburn begins to put on the skull-faced helmet when the plane is rocked by an anti-aircraft shell. Rapidly losing air pressure and altitude, now there's no question... this is a one-way mission.
Trailer
I'm kinda torn on this. Oh, I am going to watch and most likely even enjoy it. But while I'm a big fan of well-made indie productions, even more so ones that go a bit into the WW2/Supernatural genre, there's just some things that don't sit right with me (and by that I don't mean that it's obviously not been shot in Poland, or Europe in general). Maybe it's because of what I've been reading lately, maybe I'm just in a grumpy and/or pedantic mood, but: am I the only one a bit bored by the "Lonely US Hero fighting off scores of baddies in WW2 with super gear"?
Well, after a decade worth of WW2 shooters, maybe it's just oversaturation with the theme...?
Guys, you outnumbered the Axis in something like 8 out of 10 battles you fought against them, often coupled with something approaching air supremacy, and you outproduced them almost right from the start. I'm not being offensive here just for the hell of it, but: the story of the small group with superior weapons and esprit de corps fighting against enemies in WW2, against the odds? Technically, that'd be the Wehrmacht...
Created by a group of passionate and innovative filmmakers and shot on the RED One camera system, Project Arbiter is a 20-minute sci-fi espionage short film that demonstrates how a small quiet victory tips the balance of power and foretells the outcome of World War II.
Set in 1943, the height of WWII, this is a story about an experimental O.S.S. unit code named Project Arbiter. Thousands of feet above Northern Europe a small plane carries a skeleton crew of the Allies best, including Special Fields Op. Captain Joseph Colburn. His handler, Major Thomas Hardy does a final review of the mission's grim intel: infiltrate a mysterious villa on the Polish border and uncover its secrets. Colburn emerges donning a prototype suit, which can temporarily render its occupant invisible. As the plane's bay doors howl open Colburn begins to put on the skull-faced helmet when the plane is rocked by an anti-aircraft shell. Rapidly losing air pressure and altitude, now there's no question... this is a one-way mission.
Trailer
I'm kinda torn on this. Oh, I am going to watch and most likely even enjoy it. But while I'm a big fan of well-made indie productions, even more so ones that go a bit into the WW2/Supernatural genre, there's just some things that don't sit right with me (and by that I don't mean that it's obviously not been shot in Poland, or Europe in general). Maybe it's because of what I've been reading lately, maybe I'm just in a grumpy and/or pedantic mood, but: am I the only one a bit bored by the "Lonely US Hero fighting off scores of baddies in WW2 with super gear"?
Well, after a decade worth of WW2 shooters, maybe it's just oversaturation with the theme...?
Guys, you outnumbered the Axis in something like 8 out of 10 battles you fought against them, often coupled with something approaching air supremacy, and you outproduced them almost right from the start. I'm not being offensive here just for the hell of it, but: the story of the small group with superior weapons and esprit de corps fighting against enemies in WW2, against the odds? Technically, that'd be the Wehrmacht...
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