Onslaught delivers the super-soldier slasher goods, but not much payoff
Adam Wingard's action-horror-Western, Onslaught looks great and is lots of fun. Just don't expect its well-crafted parts to come together.
Moriarty, New Mexico, a small town surrounded by the greater Albuquerque area, finds itself at the center of a military-industrial action-horror nightmare in Adam Wingard's Onslaught. David, a military medical experiment gone wrong, infiltrates and partially destroys a grieving family in The Guest, leading to Moriarty being targeted by bigger, badder experiments.
The movie features three super-soldiers, personified military industry run amok, bringing to mind the slasher series from John Carpenter. Celeste, an Army veteran played by Adria Arjona, performs target practice with big guns on the grounds of the trailer park she manages, which resembles the Halloween setting from The Guest but without the traditional haunted-house spooky elements.
Despite Wingard's attention to world-building and character development, the movie ultimately ends up as a slightly forgettable action-horror film that hits too close to other well-known sources, such as Assault on Precinct 13, without fully delivering on its potential.
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