Just kidding! They America the situation again and again by ignoring the facts and following orders that will obviously lead to death. I guess that single gripe really was the main issue I had with the film.Īs our brave heroes perish one by one, they learn from their mistakes and try to make amends by using some kind of impossible time travel rules to fix the errors that have put them with in this temporal time-fuck. I know there is a reason for this and we’ll touch on that in a bit…but I clearly need to vent first, so here goes. It’s honestly quite jarring and pedestrian…I’ve just banned my five-year-old from watching Netflix shows that oversaturate colours and this is pretty much the adult version of just that. Someone has purposely flipped a filter to make most scenes near-entirely blue with a few reds here or there. My first gripe: What the hell (hahaha…*sigh*) is up with the colours? The hue changes in post-production are beyond dramatic. They are indeed up against some kind of horror trope, I cannot argue that…but it is very weird to have soldiers fighting some kind of extraplanar staircase that may or may not be some form of purgatory you can’t exactly showcase their kickass skills against flight after flight of raised concrete elevations. We have the same collection of hardened soldiers that fear nothing but a bad IMDb rating (imagine DOOM ) running from the siren from The Purge (2013).
Think Dog Soldiers (2002) or Frankenstein’s Army (2013). The Ascent (also known as Spec Ops in the US and previously titled as The Stairs) promised something of an esoteric, existential twist on the usual gang of hard-ass military assholes versus insert-horror-trope-here and those films have-for the most part-been rather entertaining. I’d been anticipating this one for a while as it sounded similar in plot to 2014’s As Above, So Below a film I knew little about at the time but one that really blew me away when I finally got around to viewing it. Now, this is not some bargain-box DVD film but rather a pretty decent UK production. Behind enemy lines and taking down both soldier and civilian alike, our gung-ho band of brothers (and sisters) seems like a force not to be reckoned with…that is, until they come face to face with a menacing staircase.
The film opens with a group of soldiers, supposedly a spec ops squad, gathering intel and cleaning house during a civil war. Whether or not “something else” is a good or bad thing is-I suppose-subjective. To survive, they must revisit their past sins if they ever want to get off. The unit soon find themselves trapped on a never-ending stairwell forced to climb or die. Special ops squad “Hell’s Bastards” are sent to infiltrate a civil war to retrieve intel.
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