Film Review – Lucky Strike

Rod Lurie found some attention with his pandemic release, 2020’s “The Outpost.” The picture brought audiences into the middle of combat pressures during the Iraq War, with Lurie looking to generate a look at the brutality of service and the sacrifice of soldiers. While he messed around with inspirational football drama in 2025’s “The Senior,” Lurie returns to global conflict with “Lucky Strike,” which is set during the “Battle of the Bulge” during World War II, but it isn’t a full-scale war movie. The co-writer/director goes smaller in scale, electing to follow one man’s quest to survive behind enemy lines, facing brutal conditions, a leg wound, and waves of Nazis as he strives to make it back to safety. “Lucky Strike” has the makings of a pulse-pounding thriller, offering a defined goal and plenty of setbacks, but Lurie remains oddly muted with the endeavor, trying to create a respectful understanding of sacrifice instead of a more feral one. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com