The Objective
This article consists almost entirely of a plot summary. (June 2017) |
The Objective | |
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Directed by | Daniel Myrick |
Written by | Daniel Myrick Mark A. Patton Wesley Clark Jr. |
Produced by | Zev Guber Jeremy Wall Richard Halpern Karim Debbagh |
Starring | Jonas Ball Matthew R. Anderson Jon Huertas Michael C. Williams (actor) |
Narrated by | Jonas Ball |
Cinematography | Stephanie Martin |
Edited by | Michael J. Duthie Robert Florio |
Music by | Kays Al-Atrakchi |
Distributed by | IFC Films |
Release dates |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Countries | United States Morocco |
Language | English |
The Objective is a 2008
It premiered in Morocco in April 2008 and in the United States in February 2009.
Plot
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In
As they go further into the mountains, they begin to have strange encounters. First, they are ambushed by gunmen who kill Trinoski. The team returns fire, killing multiple gunmen, but when they check the bodies, they have disappeared. That night, the team spots headlights of a vehicle approaching. However, the two lights separate and then speedily fly into the sky and disappear. After speculating on what the lights may have been, they radio for a helicopter to resupply them. The next day, they cannot get reception on their radio or GPS. Their truck, damaged from the ambush, is struggling to move up the mountain. At night, the team hears a helicopter approaching, though they cannot spot it. As their radio is not working, they attempt to signal the helicopter. As the helicopter, still unseen, seems to be directly on top of them, the noise abruptly stops (something that shouldn't be physically possible). Meanwhile, the radio picks up what sounds like
As the team progresses further, the remaining soldiers confront Keynes and demand the truth. Keynes shows them a recording from his thermal imaging camera and informs them about the real motive. The thermal video shows a triangular object in the desert. Being nearly invisible to the naked eye, it lifts off the ground after three (supposed) men, including Mohammed Aban, walk to it and vanishes right in front of Keynes' eyes. It was this object that killed the men. The CIA has been monitoring this since 1980 and sent Keynes and the team there to further investigate it. The whole time, Keynes has been recording with his special thermal camera and sending the images to Langley via an advanced laser aimed at CIA satellites. Keynes theorizes that this object originates from an ancient Indian mythology called 'Vimanas', a sort of UFO-related phenomenon that occurred when Alexander the Great rode through this area of land as he was conquering, and the bright lights and the ghostly gunmen are associated with it. He also explains that the team is 'expendable', and they will not be rescued, which causes a brief scuffle with the agitated team leader, who disappears the next morning.
Running out of ammunition, water and food, the team wanders further into the desert where they finally encounter the vimanas at what appears to be the location that the British regiment was destroyed. Sadler, overwhelmed with fear, opens fire upon the seemingly invisible vimanas only to be vaporized. Keynes flees with Degetau and abandons him later, as he is too sick to continue, and later hears his screams before being obliterated by the objects. Exhausted and traumatized, Keynes searches for water. He encounters an oasis and drinks water from it only to discover the body of Hamer lying next to the water. Unable to grasp the horror, he passes out. When he wakes up, he hears the distant sound of a helicopter and fires his flare gun. Simultaneously, several flares fire up from the valley. The bright light he encountered earlier re-appears and two beings from it approach him. As it touches his forehead, he sees visions and hallucinations of various objects and landscapes from his previous encounters, causing him to go into a trance. He is shown floating several inches above a bed with a talisman he took from Aban's home in his hand, inside a hospital room, where doctors and a military colonel are watching him through a glass window. In a trance, he finally whispers, "It will save us all..."
In the final credits, interviews of Keynes' wife are shown in which she says that the family has not yet been informed about him and concludes him to be missing.
Cast
- Jonas Ball as CIA Agent Benjamin Keynes
- Matthew R. Anderson as Chief Warrant OfficerWally Hamer, 180A SF Warrant Officer
- Jon Huertas as Sergeant Vincent Degetau, 18D SF Medical Sgt.
- Michael C. Williams as Sergeant Joe Trinoski, 18C SF Demolitions/Engineering Sgt.
- Sam Hunter as Sergeant Tim Cole, 18E SF Communications Sgt.
- Jeff Prewett as Sergeant Pete Sadler, 18B SF Weapons Sgt./Sniper
- Kenny Taylor as Master SergeantKenny Tanner, 18Z/18F Senior Team Sgt. / Intelligence Sgt.
- Chems-Eddine Zinoune as Abdul
- P. David Miller as Major Matt McCarthy, 18A SF Officer
- Vanessa Johansson as Stacy Keanes
- Jacqueline Harris as Matilde Seymour
Reception
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On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 33% based on reviews from 12 critics.[1]
References
- ^ "The Objective", Rotten Tomatoes, retrieved 2019-07-21
External links
- The Objective at IMDb
- The Objective at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Objective at Box Office Mojo