Product Details

• Actors: Jon Huertas, Michael C. Williams, Jonas Ball, Mike C. Williams, Matt Anderson
• Directors: Daniel Myrick
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: MPI HOME VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: October 13, 2009
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002IRYYCI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #88,128 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Objective" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Unexpectedly Good, January 17, 2010

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Christopher C. Colvin (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Objective (DVD)

This is a good movie and well worth your time and money.

This is an excellent example of a moderately budgeted film without the extreme special effects of overblown Hollywood "blockbusters". It delivers an involving story, convincing characters, and really shames the Hollywood elite who think "Hancock" is what the public wants.

It is obvious that research was done to find out how special forces units work, act, and speak. This is appreciated when you consider that may of the movies out there don't even have rank insignia placed on uniforms correctly. This is a real irritant for someone who has military experience.

The story itself is a take on "Heart of Darkness" and I think that is all I'll say about the plot...

A well done story, an excellent cast, and way beyond the Hollywood drek.

Well done!

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie!, November 17, 2009

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Andrew F (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

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Being in the Army, I always hate movies which feature the military but give it the "Hollywood" treatment which renders it completely unrealistic. However, I can see that The Objective hews as close to actual Army operations and tactics as I have seen in a movie. Everything is authentic, from how they are dressed to the equipment they use to how they speak on the radio. I give it 5 stars just for that.

As for the movie itself, it follows a CIA agent and team of Special Forces soldiers (an "A-team" or Detachment Alpha) as they search supposedly for an important contact. However, as the movie progresses the truth is revealed. This movie is great because there is tension at many different levels, including between the CIA agent and the Special Forces team.

I thought the ending was a little weak, but otherwise I'd highly recommend this movie to anyone!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Blair Witch Revisited, May 31, 2010

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Eric Sanberg (Berwyn, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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Daniel Myrick, one of the directors of the Blair Witch Project, spins the Blair Witch storyline a bit and comes up with this nifty other-worldly thriller. Like Blair Witch, he strands a group of people, in this case a special ops force, in a hostile environment and sets a supernatural agent upon them.

These special ops dudes, headed by a CIA operative, are in search of, what we're told, may be nuclear weapons in Afghanistan. He gives his men some more benign story but they know something's up. Even with the help of a local guide, they become lost. Is it because all their high-tech gear ceases to function or has the terrain actually changed.

Soon they are set upon by an enemy and, one by one, they are picked off or choose to off themselves. Mr. CIA is filming all of this with an infra-red camera and uplinking it home via infra-red. He sees things through the camera his men cannot see and finally he spills the beans to the one remaining soldier. He is trying to verify, for the CIA, the existence of Vimanas which seem to be an other-worldly force that may have been around even before Alexander the Great's conquests. They may be the ultimate weapon.

As I mentioned, it's a remake of Blair Witch but with a larger budget and scope. Myrick even uses a re-occurring icon not dissimilar to the one used in Blair Witch. This is a good, solid undertaking with a mid-sized budget. The story is good. The acting is adequate and the directing is solid. As another reviewer noted, this shows you don't need truckloads of money and huge stars to make a good movie. Granted, had this had some known names, it would have gotten better backing and distribution but that's the business, not the art. If you're at all disposed to this kind of film, this is well worth your time and money.

I will argue the ending. It's very brief (one shot held for a few seconds) and I'm not certain what Myrick was trying to convey. But by that time the movie was over and I was pretty much satisfied so I won't lean on that too heavily.