“Outside The Wire” (*** out of four) was a slick, intensely visceral pulp action thriller set in the not-too-distant future in which a drone pilot (Damson Idris) is penalized for disobeying orders that resulted in a military attack and is sent to a war zone and paired with a highly trained android officer (Anthony Mackie) who is on a mission to stop a nuclear attack involving Russia that could result in World War III. Explosive movie gets a little overcomplicated in its second half making it a little hard to follow but it never stops moving and giving you action and breathless set pieces to watch and take in. Both Mackie and Idris are first-rate and make up for film’s sometimes derivative origins and ideas.

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