Every performance in “The Outpost” is better than average, particularly for movies like this, and that’s one of Lurie’s greatest accomplishments.

...an engrossing and immersive look at an isolated battle in “America’s Longest War”...

...features an amazing, extended battle sequence that's harrowing yet coherent. It also has an appealingly hard, terse quality to its dialogue.

The film moves from crude-talking soldiers in a bad situation, into something more complex, painful, brave and illuminating.

Det bjuds samtidigt på intressanta detaljer, en verklighetstrogen och unik inblick i soldaternas vardag och frenetiska krigsscener.

Anden halvdel er noget af det mest nervepirrende, der er sket for krigsfilmgenren, siden Tom Hanks stormede en strand i Normandiet.

Utöver karismatiska rollprestationer förtjänar fotograf Lorenzo Senatore och klippare Michael J. Duthie visst beröm för filmens stridsscener...

Kuglerne fyger om ørene, og eksplosionerne dundrer, så det skælver i brystkassen.