Spectral (Nic Mathieu, 2016)

Another exercise in FPS-style American military hardware porn, with war-torn Moldova (played by Budapest, because who'd know the difference?) being ravaged further by the ghosts of the war dead and the U.S. Army going in to save the day. The plot is shamelessly lifted from Aliens, with a team of grunts charging around shooting at everything that moves and a couple of boffins - who naturally still turn out to be rather hard too - in tow; there's even a Newt clone that they find who has survived the unstoppable spectres. Then the problem is finally sorted out through some completely nonsensical science. The best you can say is that it's efficient and the cityscapes look good, but that's not much to go on.

4/10