Exterritorial (2025) Review: A Story of Loss, Fear, and a Missing Boy

Hello everyone, I'm Joy. Now I'll talk about a new movie on Netflix called "Exterritorial". I saw how the movie was, I'll talk about that in this review. So how was the movie? It's a very short movie, but does it deserve your time?

Story Overview

Before coming to the positive and negative aspects, let me tell you a little about the story. It's a story of a husband, wife, and their child. The husband is dead, but he's in the story. You'll understand why he's in the story when you watch the movie.

So the husband is dead, now the wife lives alone with her child. One day, the mother's son will go to a place for a job. I'm not saying which place, what kind of job. You'll understand when you watch the movie, because if I tell you, a lot will be revealed.

Now they'll go to a job. It will take a long time to do the job. So the little boy, he'll get restless. The mother will take him to a playroom, a playroom. She'll say, "Boss, you play here, I'll bring you some coffee." The mother will go and get the coffee. When you return with coffee, you will see that the boy is not there—the boy is missing.

Now the story starts from here. Where is the boy? Who took him? Did someone kidnap him, or is this an illusion in the mother's mind? The movie is going to be about all of these.

Now if we talk about its positive and negative aspects—

Positive aspects:

Look, the movie could have been a pretty good movie. But the movie remains an average movie, despite having many positive aspects. Why? I'll come to that now.

First positive aspect: The subject is very good.

The way the relationship between the mother and son is shown here, the relationship between husband and wife is shown and with it, Afghanistan, a war zone, the way this incident is related to that war zone—the subject was good. A better movie could have been made with it, but it couldn't be made. Why? I'll talk about that later.

The performance in this movie is very good. Everyone who has performed here is very good. The one who has played the lead role has performed exceptionally—be it in action sequences, dramatic situations or emotional places. His expression, his body language in every place is very good.

The kid, the other cast—whoever was there, everyone's performance is good here. You will enjoy the performance.

Along with that, the movie is shot here in one location. But it is nice to see the thing. It gives the lavishness. Those technical departments are strong. The look and feel here is good. The money that has been spent here, even though it is shot in one location, you don't find it boring to watch—that thing is good.

The action sequences are designed as hand-to-hand fights. They are nice to see and the way they have been performed by the performers, they are quite good. Along with the lighting, BGM, technical aspects are very strong.

Also, there are some edge-of-the-seat moments here, which work. I will come to that later on why I am saying some. But there are some moments of tension, which create that height, can create tension. I especially like to watch the early parts. And the movie is short—it doesn't take up much of your time. So you can watch the movie in one go and leave.

The movie takes you through entertainment. You will be entertained, watching the movie. This was a fairly positive aspect.

Negative aspects:

I said the movie is short—it doesn't take up much of your time, what happened to that?

Later on, the story becomes predictable. You can see the attempt to end it quickly. It seems that this time it has to be wrapped up quickly, it can't take much time. That's why those things become predictable. The twists and turns are not fun to watch, the tension points are not built up well.

The edge-of-the-seat moments were building up at first, but later they became predictable, so the tension points or twists do not come out very well.

Along with that, this movie has a lot of emotional space, but the emotion does not come out anywhere. The emotions between husband and wife, the emotions between mother and son, the bonding of the heroine with a girl—the emotions in those places do not come out properly. Time was not given. Everything is being said and said in a hurry.

The action is shown, it just entered the plot, told the backstory, and then ended the movie. It does not take time, but the emotional points could not be cooked well.

Speaking of edge-of-the-seat moments, the emotion lags a lot later.

These were the positive and negative aspects.

Final Verdict

For me, the movie had the potential to be a good movie. But the movie remained a normal, average movie.

It is suitable for those who love to watch action movies, who want to get a little thrill, feel, twist in it. Those who love to watch those things, go and check out the movie. It is available on Netflix.

This was the review. Don't forget to tell me how you liked the review.