Nerds That Geek Movie Review – ‘Outpost II: Black Sun’

​Written by Scott Edwards 

Looking for the truth can be a more dangerous venture than it is made out to be. Sometimes the truth behind something will leave you breathless and wishing that you never found it. With so many people trying to find out what really happened in the past, when they uncover an unfortunate and disturbing fact; they question its validity. Questioning and second guessing your findings is a good thing to do when you find out something that you did not expect, but trying to prove that your own findings are false and needing to disprove them before the world accepts it as fact, could be more damaging to yourself than anyone else.

Lena is on the hunt for Nazi war criminals, more specifically the ones responsible for her family’s death. Her end goal is to find an old scientist named Klausener who performed gruesome experiments on the inmates of his death camps and her search is narrowing down quickly. But when she enters a facility filled with dead soldiers, she quickly finds out that there is something completely different on the horizon. After talking with her old partner Wallace, Lena sees video footage of a Nazi platoon that is moving its way through Europe, and nothing is standing in their way.

Wallace knows what is powering these super soldiers and believes that he can stop the magnetic field that has been increasing in size over the past two weeks. With his research all jotted down in his notebook, he has everything that he needs, but wants to have an escort into the battle zone since they do not have guns or any way of protecting themselves. Lena joins him for the one fact that she needs to find Klausener and believes he will be at the center of the magnetic disturbance, controlling the zombies that are moving unabated through the countryside. With their primary guides killed in action before their arrival, the two are able to buddy up with a Special Forces group that have the same objective. 

Finding out from the Special Forces group that these undead Nazi’s can be killed when the magnetic field is disrupted, an EMP can be their greatest weapon. Moving slowly towards their target, Lena notices that the old army is not only wanting to kill everyone in their way, but it appears they are trying to increase their numbers by injecting something into their victims. Although it does not seem to be successful at this point, the group needs to find a way to stop the machine that is keeping these killers alive before all of Europe is overrun. Arriving at the old bunker, the group finds out that the machine has been moved. Thinking that their mission is over, Wallace finds a hidden elevator that takes them deeper into the bunker and finds that the machine is being powered by an old friend who was supposedly killed two weeks back during the latest failed mission. Hunt has become a source of power for the machine and with his body tied into it, the magnetic field can continue to grow and there will be no stopping the Nazi’s from achieving their ultimate goal, world domination. 

This is a great follow up the first Outpost and let me tell you why. In only two weeks since Hunt took his band or mercenaries up to the bunker, the countryside is now being ravaged by the undead that he was trying to kill off. Although it is not explained how he was joined with the machine, it is clear that the machine needs the energy of a living person to become more powerful so the troops can achieve their goal. As the magnetic field continues to grow, the soldiers' reach becomes much further and even though they kill everyone in their path, they seem to realize that they need greater numbers and try to turn some of the dead in their wake into new recruits. I am not sure how this works without the original scientists working with the military, but for the sake of the human race, it is not as easy as it looks to create an immortal soldier… for now. Stay Scared.

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