Tuesday, April 17, 2012

The Debt

Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain

A team of Israeli commandos fail in their mission to capture one of Hitler's monsters and bring him back home for public trial and spend the next thirty years lying about it.

Standard hollywood-type scenario shaded uncomfortably close to an infomercial for Israel's militaristic attempts to hold Nazis responsible for their crimes against humanity. The stark simplicity of the characterizations here (good guy/bad guy) made the whole enterprise feel like propaganda.

Expensive, nice-looking production that I found ultimately unsatisfying.

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