The movie does offer some cool craziness — such as a talking head-on-a-spine, and some disgusting gestation bags — but audiences should go in knowing that there isn’t a single zombie horde to be found, as the creature material is brief and disappointingly minimal.
In combination with knowing that the Allied forces are just hours away, it doesn’t leave a lot in terms of high stakes.
This is because the project isn’t introduced as one that the Nazis will soon be ready to unleash upon the world, but instead as just being its nascent stages.
Simply watching these characters on a mission to destroy a radio jammer in order to initiate the Battle of Normandy would have been excellent — but being a Bad Robot production it unfortunately decides to turn everything on its head with its genre twist, and it’s very much a shit or get off the pot.