Overlord feels like the original intention was for the whole Nazi zombie thing to be a twist and a surprise and the trailer company said "No one wants to see another WWII movie. That Call of Duty Zombies shit is popular, let's make it clear that's what we're doing." The entire first half is pure WWII war film, with the soldiers tasked with taking down a church tower so that the Normandy invasion could have sufficient air support. As the trailers (unfortunately) make it clear, things at the church base are not what they appear. Had the Nazi zombie angle been a surprise, it would have worked a lot better. With things being as they are, I just didn't get enough of the Nazi zombie stuff. The war stuff is fine and I dig WWII films, but it's being pitched to the audience as a zombie horror and there just isn't enough of either. Putting that aside, the rest was okay, but nothing really impressed me. I had high hopes for the film after seeing the trailers and I was really let down. The acting was actually pretty great and the characters felt authentic, but the pacing was off, the story takes too long to unfold, and the CGI gets pretty bad at parts. In the very beginning, we get a shot of a handful of planes flying through clouds. The clouds are fine (although I feel like CG clouds are pretty much clip-art level effects now) but the planes look terrible. The blood often looks suspect and there is scene in the later half where (keeping it vague enough that it won't spoil anything, but you'll definitely know when you see it) the main antagonist goes through a physical change where it straight up looked like a shot from a shitty 2000's comic book movie. That scene is made even worse by a super obvious, tacky, manipulative score. I want to love Overlord, but it just doesn't work like it should. I know we hate remakes, but give this to a better director, a more creative writer, and keep JJ Abrams far away and we could have a great film. I wanted Zombie Wolfenstein, but a generic war movie that becomes a generic monster movie.