Recon sends four American soldiers in Italy during the Second World War on a mission ordered less to win ground than to get them out of the way, after they see their own sergeant commit an atrocity against a civilian. Robert Port directs from a story that turns a small patrol into a reckoning with military authority itself.
What is Recon about?
Set in the closing stages of the war in Italy, the film follows a small reconnaissance unit whose faith in their chain of command collapses after their sergeant kills an unarmed civilian in front of them. Rather than report what they witnessed through channels, they are handed a mission that looks designed to make the problem disappear, guided by a local partisan whose stakes in the outcome are entirely different from theirs. The film sits in the space between war picture and moral drama, more interested in what the soldiers owe each other and the truth than in combat set pieces.
About the cast
Alexander Ludwig leads the ensemble, with R. J. Fetherstonhaugh, Mitch Ainley, Chris Brochu, and Christopher Crema rounding out the patrol, alongside Franco Nero and Sam Keeley. Nero's presence connects Recon to a long line of European war and genre cinema, while the younger cast carries the bulk of the film's dramatic weight as the four soldiers at its center.
Context & significance
Robert Port wrote and directed Recon, a 2019 American production that runs ninety-five minutes and blends biography, thriller, and war-film elements rather than sitting neatly in one genre. Its plot is loosely rooted in a real wartime account, filtered through the structure of a small-unit mission story, and it arrives amid a steady stream of low-budget World War Two dramas that use a contained cast and setting to focus on individual conscience rather than large-scale battle.
Watching Recon on Ktime
Recon is available on K-Time in its original English audio, with no Persian dub or subtitle track attached to this title at present. A free K-Time account login is all that's needed to watch — the page itself, including this overview, can be read without signing in. K-Time's browsing and search experience is built Farsi-first for Iranian audiences abroad, so the surrounding interface stays comfortable in Persian regardless of a title's spoken language.