This short is not just a short. Basically it's being a 20 minutes long
(with 5 minutes of credits!) advertisement for a video game. So a very
long commercial but luckily also an expensive looking and skillfully
made one.
What the short does well is capturing the mood of a video game, with
its story, settings, characters and events. It also shows some of the
weapons, tactics and skills that will be present in the video game but
it doesn't every do this in a too obvious or distracting way. It's all
integrated pretty well into the movie. Seems to me that they even used
some voice actors, that normally work on the type of video games, which
this movie is advertising for.
But one thing that is obvious is that they went for spectacle instead
of realism. It doesn't exactly feature the most likely plot and some of
the things that are happening are just not likely to ever happen in
real life.
The way I see it; this is just a short that everybody would love to be
able to make, with a bunch of friends (if you are a guy that is). A
bunch of shooting, a bunch of running, some explosions. It's a typical
guy flick, with plenty of action going on in it. In that regard this
short is simply being a very watchable and maintaining one, which you
shall not get bored with.
There really isn't much story present though. It's all some very
typical stuff, in which a bunch of special forces infiltrate a Russian
base. Really, if you have played a bunch of video games or watched
plenty of Chuck Norris flicks, you have all seen it somewhere else
before. No real surprises in this short and the surprises that do
happen are actually the more weaker moments.
So it's far from a perfect short but the professionalism it got made
with ensures that it still remains a perfectly watchable one, that
still offers plenty of good stuff.
7/10
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