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Starring: Anthony Mackie, Damson Idris, Emily Beecham, Michael Kelly, Pilou Asbæk

OUR RATING: ★★½

Story:

Netflix’s sci-fi action directed by Mikael Håfström. Set in the near future, the story centers on disgraced drone pilot, Harp (Damson Idris), who is sent into a deadly militarized zone where he finds himself working for an android officer, Leo (Anthony Mackie), tasked to locate a doomsday device to stop a global catastrophe.

 

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'War is ugly. Sometimes you got to get dirty to see any real change.' - Leo (Outside the Wire) Click To Tweet 'People are stupid, habitual, and lazy. Their emotions lead to mistakes.' - Harp (Outside the Wire) Click To Tweet

 

Best Quotes


 

Brydon: Two US Marines. Dead. And one US Army Gump destroyed.
Harp: I made the call that felt most correct given all the intel that was available.
Brydon: At the time. We know.
Harp: With all due respect, Captain, with forty men on the ground, I saved thirty-eight, including Master Sergeant Miller, and his convoy.
Brydon: If Master Sergeant Miller had been given the chance, he would’ve tried to save all forty. But you took that option away from him.


 

Hutton: Have you ever experienced a mass-casualty encounter, other than from behind your screen? Have you spent time in a conflict zone, Lieutenant Harp?
Harp: No, ma’am. But I spent…
Hutton: Thank you, Lieutenant.


 

Brydon: They wanted to court-martial you. I fought for you.
Harp: What am I going to tell Olivia?
Brydon: Tell her you’re going on an all expenses paid refresher in how to make the world a safer place.


 

Brydon: I like you, Harp. You’re precise, and efficient. Brilliant drone pilot. But you disobeyed a direct order. Consider yourself lucky today. Your CO at Camp Nathaniel is a Captain Leo. Report to him.
Harp: Camp Nathaniel? That’s where the platoon’s based.
Brydon: Just keep your head down, and see it as an opportunity to meet your fellow servicemen. Let’s pray you’re a fast learner.


 

Harp: Lieutenant Harp, sir. I’ve been posted here from Creech Air Force Base. Looking for Captain Leo.
Eckhart: You must’ve really f***ed up if they sent you to Leo.


 

Eckhart: [to Harp] You killed two marines. You should be in jail. But someone deemed the dollar value of your training to be higher than the lives of those two men. If you survive, Air Force keeps a pilot. You don’t, you’re a cautionary tale to all the other fly by wire a**holes.


 

Eckhart: [referring to Leo] Harp, he’s not like us.


 

Leo: Lieutenant Thomas Harp. Tier three UAV pilot. Fifty-six thousand flight hours. Ninety-nine percent performance record, and ninety-nine percent discipline. Engaged to Olivia Rose Meyer of Carlsbad. To be married in Palm Springs. It’s a very nice part of the world. Did I leave anything out, other than your kills and commendations, or the fact that you can’t appreciate culture, or you just don’t know when to shut the f*** up?
Harp: No.
Leo: “No, Captain.”
Harp: No, Captain.


 

Leo: [to Harp] Goddamn, you’re a cold m*therf***er.


 

Harp: I’m aware we kill people, Captain.
Leo: If you were aware of that, you wouldn’t be here.


 

Harp: You a quartermaster?
Leo: If I were, would you be disappointed?
Harp: Why would I be disappointed?
Leo: Because that means you just flew ten thousand miles to sign equipment out of a warehouse.


 

Harp: We all play our part.
Leo: Who the f*** do you think you are? Some Academy kid? Did daddy pay your way through cadet school so you could mind your Ps and Qs?
Harp: With all due respect, I put myself through cadet school. Sir.


 

Harp: So you’re “hearts and minds,” sir?
Leo: Yes. I’m hearts and minds. Ostensibly.


 

Harp: So what do you really do?
Leo: I chase ghosts.
Harp: I’m sorry, what?
Leo: MARSOC. Marine Special Operations. I locate and remove advanced weapons from insurgents beyond the wire.
Harp: And what do you do? Put them in filing cabinets?


 

Harp: We’re peacekeepers. We’re the only thing stopping these guys from committing genocide against each other.


 

Leo: [referring to Koval] And if all this is true, imagine what he’ll do if he gets his hands on those silos.
Harp: Yeah. A madman with nukes.
Leo: A crazy terrorist with nukes. Downtown Washington, New York, Paris. Who knows? What I do know is, there won’t be a pretty little wedding in Palm Springs, unless you’re wearing factor five hundred UV protection.


 

Leo: We ride out at dawn.
Harp: Dawn? But that’s now! Woh, Captain. Sir? With all due respect, sir, I think there’s been a mistake. I just got here.
Leo: I don’t make mistakes, Lieutenant.


 

Harp: I don’t have any specialist training as a field agent.
Leo: Don’t worry. I’m special enough for both of us.
[we see he’s an android]


 

Harp: You’re a…
Leo: Your commanding officer. Fourth-generation biotech, and I’m going to give you sixty seconds to deal with it.


 

Leo: Do you feel as though you can trust me, Harp?
Harp: I, uh…
Leo: We’re about to enter a war zone. If I continue to instill shock and distrust, I’ll file your removal papers myself, and you’ll have to deal with the consequences. Now, do you trust me?
Harp: Yes, sir.
Leo: Cool.


 

Harp: So what are you? Like AI?
Leo: Your cell phone’s AI. A Gump’s AI. I’m a prototype. And my existence is classified.
Harp: You’re evading the question, sir.
Leo: You ask the right question, I’ll give you the right answer.


 

Harp: What the hell are you?
Leo: You want my model number or tech specs? Both are classified.


 

Leo: Only two people here have clearance to know who and what I am. That’s Colonel Eckhart and you.
Harp: Why was I assigned to you? I’m not qualified to go chasing nukes.
Leo: You weren’t assigned. I chose you. I can’t do this alone. I need eyes on my back. I needed someone who could think outside the box. You got me?


 

Harp: So we’re partners?
Leo: F***, no. You’re my subordinate. You respect me like the rest of your commanding officers. You don’t question my authority, and we’ll get on fine.


 

Leo: Must be nice. Fight a war, never have to leave home. When was the last time you saw her?
Harp: Saw who?
Leo: What do you mean “who”? Olivia Rose Meyer.
Harp: Last week.
Leo: Last week. Damn.


 

Leo: Look, I get a sense of arrogance from you. Guys like you, so dispassionate, so cold, so into himself. Those are the guys that usually wander.
Harp: Yeah, well, I’m faithful.


 

Leo: I need your head out here, not thinking about if Olivia’s at home playing “put the beef in my taco” with her Pilates instructor.
Harp: Her Pilates instructor is a woman.
Leo: Oh, even better! She goes both ways. I knew I liked her.
Harp: We’re getting married in September. What do you know about relationships, anyway? Aren’t you like three years-old?
Leo: Five.


 

Leo: [referring to Olivia] You got a picture of her? Come on, man. Pull it out.
[Harp gives him a photo]
Leo: Holy s**t. She’s a hottie! Congratulations.
Harp: Thank you. She’s special.
[Harp tries to take the photo back]
Leo: Hey!
[Leo turns the photo over and reads the message]
Leo: “My Gummy Bear.” She calls you Gummy Bear? Aw, my Gummy Bear.


 

Harp: It’s our job to identify, neutralize.
Leo: It’s our job to stay alive long enough to get our intel, and focus on the bigger picture.

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Leo: [to Harp] Lose the helmet. Makes you look aggressive. Trying to cultivate trust. Keep your gun in the holster. It might just keep you alive.


 

Harp: Miller doesn’t know about our real mission, does he? What about the colonel?
Leo: Eckhart thinks you can manage this conflict from behind a fence. War is ugly. Sometimes you got to get dirty to see any real change.


 

Leo: Feeling is all I got, rookie. Acute sensory perception.
Harp: What? Can you feel pain?
Leo: Of course I can. I couldn’t empathize with you if I didn’t. Like right now, what do you feel?
Harp: S**t-scared and confused.
Leo: That’s good. That means you’re here and you’re alive.


 

Leo: Do you ever wonder why I look like this, Harp?
Harp: What? Chiseled cheekbones?
Leo: Funny. Why would the Pentagon pick my face to represent the United States Marines? Why wouldn’t they make me a blond haired, blue eyed, all-American varsity peckerwood?
Harp: Didn’t want to ask. Thought it might be robotist.
Leo: Psy-ops. My sleeve might say US, but my face conveys neutrality. Makes people calm.


 

Leo: They’re good people, Harp. Trust is hard earned. Find out what they need and give it to them. Most of them just want to live.
Harp: You manipulate people?
Leo: It’s called compassion.


 

Leo: Who are you?
Krasny General: [as Leo puts finger in his neck wound] F*** yourself, American pig!
Leo: I can do this all day.


 

Leo: [to Harp] He’s a fanatic. It always ends the same. Welcome to the war, kid.


 

Harp: Tell me what you’re hiding. I’ll walk back to base, and I’ll tell them you went rogue. Did your motherboard freeze? Stop staring at me like that. Did your motherboard freeze? Say something!
Leo: Why are you such a pain in my m*therf***ing a**?


 

Harp: Who programmed you to curse so much?
Leo: Nobody. I respond to the a**hole that’s in front of me. Now get in the f***ing truck!
Harp: No. I’m not getting in there.
Leo: Okay. Walk. How long do you think you’ll survive out here on your own?


 

Leo: You killed two marines but saved thirty-eight. They should’ve put a f***ing medal on your chest.
Harp: I did the right thing.
Leo: You mean you stepped outside your box, and they had to put you back? Is that why you think you’re here?
Harp: I’m here because I broke chain of command.


 

Harp: [to Leo] What about you? What’s your mandate? S**t, I’m no expert, but this seems beyond protocol for a, whatever you are.


 

Leo: I’m not a man, Lieutenant. I was created to simulate one to the exact necessity to do my damn job. I’m a combat soldier. But I also have the ability to break the rules in certain circumstances. Just like you.
Harp: What kind of circumstances?
Leo: In extreme situations, I have the ability to act of my own volition.
Harp: And is this an extreme situation?


 

Leo: Why don’t you ask me what you really want to ask?
Harp: How come you’re so like us??
Leo: Sentient?
Harp: Emotional.
Leo: So you equate humanity with emotion?
Harp: I equate it with fault. People are stupid, habitual, and lazy. Their emotions lead to mistakes.
Leo: Maybe humans aren’t emotional enough, Lieutenant.


 

Leo: Tell me what you know.
Sofiya: In front of him?
Leo: You can trust him. She can trust you. Right, Harp?
Harp: Uh, yeah. Yeah, you can trust me.


 

Sofiya: You have to do this for us.
Leo: I know. I will.
Sofiya: [referring to Harp] What about him?
Leo: He’ll be fine. It’s his first day outside the wire.
Sofiya: His first day?
Leo: He’s a drone pilot.


 

Sofiya: How does it feel to see your work up close?
Harp: My work?
Sofiya: Yeah. Most of these kids weren’t orphaned by the civil war. Your bombs destroyed their homes.


 

Leo: Where’s the vault?
Oshlak: Well, I’m a dead man if…
Leo: Either I kill you or Victor Koval kills you. But I’m much closer right now.


 

Leo: You know the streets by memory?
Harp: Like a f***ing cab driver.
Leo: Like a f***ing drone pilot.


 

Leo: What’s wrong? Are you scared?
Harp: At what point does your program shut down? At what point are you violating orders?
Leo: That’s why you’re here.


 

Leo: An intel officer like yourself can follow an aborted line, and it’s considered a hunch. If I do it, it’s a fault. Intel would take me offline, leaving Koval to win.
Harp: Yeah, but what about your internal systems? At what point do you cross the line?
Leo: At the point you’re no longer with me. I requested your deployment because I need your help.
Harp: Wait, that means this whole time, this whole s**tty time, I’m the one breaking orders? I’ll go to jail! I can’t do this s**t!


 

Leo: [to Harp] Tell me to stop the car! We’re the only ones out here searching for him. But if you don’t think it’s worth your time, call it in, they’ll shut me down, and you can f***ing walk!


 

Harp: They put your tracker on your back?
Leo: Cut it out, Harp.
Harp: [as he cuts into Leo’s back] Does it hurt?
Leo: Of course it f***ing hurts!


 

Eckhart: We’re about to take out Koval. You need to move your a** now.
Harp: Take out? You sent a drone?
Eckhart: Unless you want to be that cautionary tale, you better move your a**, son.
Harp: There’s civilians on the ground, sir! And Leo’s still in there!
Eckhart: Captain Leo’s collateral. They’re all collateral.


 

Harp: They’re all dead. I tried to save them, you know. I tried to save them.
Leo: Now you see your work first-hand.


 

Harp: What the f*** are you up to, Leo? Hm? I see you, you know. You brought me here. A drone pilot with a history of gross disobedience, punished and humiliated, and with nobody to believe anything I say unless you back it up. So, please tell me, what the f*** am I doing here, and what are you even using me for?
Leo: Sounds like you don’t trust me, Harp. That makes me upset.


 

Harp: Leo, I’m ordering you to return us back to base immediately, or be in breach of your moral directives.
Leo: Oh. And the fact that I can act of my own volition scares you, right?
Harp: No, no, no, no. You need me to validate you.


 

Leo: Who validates you? You follow me, I follow you. It’s kind of like a paradox of command, isn’t it?
Harp: I’m ordering you to stop the f***ing car!
Leo: Or what? Hm? My backup system allows me to relinquish the need for human authority, if said person is exhibiting improper, or impaired judgment. You, my friend, have exercised improper, and impaired judgment, throughout this entire mission. Including the removal of one fail-safe device.
Harp: A what? You told me that was your tracker.
Leo: You disabled US military hardware. And thanks to your little air strike back there, Eckhart thinks I’m destroyed.


 

Harp: You owe me more than this, man.
Leo: No, kid. I just saved your f***ing life.
[he knocks Harp out]


 

Sofiya: [referring to the injection given to Harp] It’s truth serum. You’ll tell us all we need to know.
Harp: The boss? Jesus Christ. Are you the leader of the Resistance?
Sofiya: Are you our enemy?
Harp: No. No, no. I’m not your f***ing enemy. I don’t have any information.
Sofiya: [laughs] It wasn’t pentothal. It was antibiotic for your wounds.
Harp: Right. Awesome joke. Hilarious, comical, and very f***ing funny.


 

Harp: Can you untie me now, please?
Sofiya: Not until I know you’re no threat.
Harp: I’m not a threat. Leo is.


 

Victor Koval: You have the codes? Give them. What’s stopping me from killing you and taking it?
Leo: You honestly think I would have them with me, Victor? I’m not an idiot. That would make me human.


 

Sofiya: We trust in Leo.
Harp: You trust in Leo. He’s more likely to take control of the nukes himself, and he used you.
Sofiya: He told you that?
Harp: Not in so many words. I don’t know exactly why he’s doing it, but you can’t trust him. He’s a machine, Sofiya.


 

Leo: I want the location of Perimeter.
Victor Koval: What do I get in return?
Leo: I’ll let you live.
Victor Koval: I didn’t know your kind had such a sense of humor. It’s incredible what man is able to create.


 

Sofiya: We are the ones who want f***ing peace, Lieutenant Harp! And if Leo’s rogue operation makes sure you leave us in peace, if your war machine turns against you, well then, why should I f***ing care?


 

Harp: [referring to Leo] He’s going to launch a nuclear strike on the US. Innocent people will die.
Sofiya: Aren’t they just collateral? Or not when it’s American lives?
Harp: It’s not collateral. It’s mass murder. You can’t let him do this!


 

Victor Koval: What will you do with so much power?
Leo: That’s between me and my creator.
Victor Koval: Philosophical.
Leo: Mm-hmm. What would you do with it, Victor?
Victor Koval: I will guarantee world peace.
Leo: I knew you would say that.
Victor Koval: Can you say the same?
Leo: We’ll see.


 

Victor Koval: We can be good allies in the worst to come. Don’t make me have to ruin this marvel of American technology.
Leo: Victor Koval, the Terror of the Balkans. My man, what makes you think that you’re still calling shots? You should have never tried to kill me.
[after which he kills Koval and his men]


 

Harp: How many people will die? How many people will die, Sofiya? Can’t answer it, can you?
Sofiya: Enough to teach Americans about collateral damage. You’re on your own.
Harp: What?
Sofiya: Go home. It’s over.


 

Eckhart: Captain Leo was destroyed in the bank attack. We lost his signal immediately.
Harp: He lost his signal because I removed his fail-safe.
Eckhart: You did what?
Harp: Look, I know I f***ed up, okay?


 

Harp: Leo’s smarter than we are. He’s stronger, he’s faster, and he can be very f***ing persuasive.
Brydon: This Victor Koval Perimeter stuff, it’s all bulls**t! Anything to it, Intel would’ve made it priority.
Harp: I am the f***ing Intel!


 

Eckhart: [referring to Leo] He’s deep in disputed territory right on the Russian border. I can’t send in forces over unverified intel, or we’ll start a f***ing war with the Russians.
Harp: You don’t have to, sir. I’ll go.
Eckhart: Harp, you said it yourself. He’s stronger, faster, smarter.


 

Brydon: What if you don’t get to him?
Harp: Then you deny we ever had this conversation, and pray I’m wrong about his plans for Armegadon. Clock’s ticking, Colonel. I f***ed up, sir. Let me do the right thing.


 

Brydon: I hope I never see you again after this.
Harp: Yeah. I’ll try not to disappoint you.


 

Harp: The war is f***ing bulls**t, but setting off those nukes won’t solve anything!
Leo: Says the man that killed two to save thirty-eight.
Harp: And you’ll kill a million.
Leo: And I’ll save a hundred million!


 

Leo: Go home. Go home to Olivia Rose Meyer.
Harp: How the f*** do you switch it off?
Leo: You can’t.


 

Harp: Why the f*** are you doing this, Leo?
Eckhart: [over radio] Harp, do you copy?
Leo: Remove the humanity, increase the fight.
Harp: What?
Leo: Machine versus machine. The world’s first use of a fully autonomous cyborg backfires.
Harp: What are you saying you want? You want them to shut the program down?
Leo: For a long, long time.


 

Harp: It’s never that simple with you, Leo. You’ve been lying this whole time! So why the f*** would I believe you anyway?
Leo: Believe what you want, but this, this is the m*therf***ing truth. I have to destroy the monster. Destroy myself. My creator. The US. They need to understand that these wars must end, and I am the face of never-ending war.
Harp: Millions will die, Leo.
Leo: Get the hell out of here.
Harp: How about we do it my way?


 

Leo: Harp, you know this makes sense. It’s the greater good. You, of all people, should understand that.


 

Harp: No. You’re wrong. Humans can learn to do better. That is the greater good, Leo.


 

Harp: [after the silo is destroyed by a drone before the missile launch] This is Lieutenant Harp. Mission complete. Returning back to base. Over.
Eckhart: Copy that. Great job, kid. You just saved the world.


 

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