Little has bumped up the sheer number of characters this time around, but outside of Sgt.
Unfortunately, the non-battle scenes aren’t nearly as interesting.
Fans of WWII action with (mostly) practical effects instead of CGI will enjoy The Void in the same vein as the earlier films. tank encounters are distinct enough from previous films to avoid a feeling of deja vu. Little has always shot battle scenes well, and The Void is most effective when the action starts. His struggle to serve his country among allies who don’t want his kind around serves as the film’s emotional core. Now driving a troop carrier, he winds up in the front lines after surviving the German ambush and latches on with the remnants of the tank crew. Jesse Owens, the main character, is a former tank commander who served with honor and pride over a black battalion, but was later demoted by skeptical and likely racist higher-ups. Cut off from communication to HQ, can the brave crew eliminate the German resistance before more Allied troops fall into their trap?Īs the trailer makes clear, the primary theme of The Void isn’t just the US army battling Germans, but battling its own racial demons. The US battalion is caught in an ambush by a group of German resisters, led by three German Panzers and a well-known “tank professor”. Two US tank crews are assigned to patrol a seemingly clear area in “The Void” - chaotic areas of the countryside no longer under organized German control. Victory is within sight, although pockets of German resistance remain. Hitler has committed suicide to avoid capture by the Allied forces now moving quickly through Germany. In June 1945, the war is almost at an end. This is a weightier theme to bite off, obviously (the racism, not the tanks) and one that shows Ryan Little has more significant and ambitious objectives with his third Saints & Soldiers film than merely “Hey, we still have a bunch of equipment and uniforms left over, might as well make another movie!” Ryan Little’s Saints & Soldiers “trilogy” of World War II films - loosely defined as there’s no common characters or stories between them - continues with The Void, released on August 15th and now playing in local theaters.įollowing the original Saints & Soldiers in 2003 and the lesser 2012 sequel Airborne Creed (which Little directed but didn’t write), Little has approached this WWII story from a new angle: racial bigotry and segregation within the US army.
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