( Glenn Close in “ Hillbilly Elegy” would be unimpressed.) As for cerebral endowments, despite being in Eastern Europe Leo doesn’t have to be as much of a super linguist as you’d expect from a robot because in THIS Eastern Europe all but a very few speak perfect English as a default.
Yeah, he can kick multiple asses with haste but he doesn’t run like a Robert Patrick model Terminator or anything.
#Outside the wire movie#
He likes Harp because of his drone decision by the way-says he needs someone who can “think outside the box.” Paradoxically, though, he tells Harp, “Maybe humans aren’t emotional enough, Lieutenant.”ĭirected with a brisk not-quite chaos cinema style by Mikael Håfström from a script by Rowan Athale and Rob Yescombe, the movie waits a good 50 minutes before showing Leo as a real fighting machine but doesn’t take it too far. “I have the ability to break the rules,” he tells Harp.
He operates with a kind of realpolitik-doesn’t act out of sentiment, stays focused on the immediate. Once back in Eastern Europe, and on the hunt for a madman named Victor Koval (what did I tell you about the names) who’s after some nuclear codes (plus ça change in semi-hacky war/espionage movies), Leo demonstrates some advantages of not being human. Leaving base, they witness some soldiers heaping abuse on a more obvious robot soldier-these dumb guys are called “Gumps,” get it?-and Leo looks on ruefully. Unlike Harp, he’s a cyborg-“fourth generation biotech and I’m giving you 60 seconds to deal with it.” Like Harp, he’s Black, and like Harp, he cusses a bit. He’s sent back to training, but he’s really on a secret mission, working with one Captain Leo ( Anthony Mackie).
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