The Debt

JP Liz V1

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1226753/

In 1965, three young Israeli Mossad agents on a secret mission capture and kill a notorious Nazi war criminal. Now, thirty years later, a man claiming to be the Nazi has surfaced in Ukraine and one of the former agents must go back undercover to seek out the truth.

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CSKqXgJXWo

Conor108

This looks great! Really looking forward to it.

Phony Scott

It does look great alright, but I have a slight problem. Maybe I'm nitpicking, but if they're chasing after a Nazi war criminal in 2010, wouldn't that make the Nazi, at the very minimum, at least 85 years of age? The guy in the trailer doesn't look 85 to me...

Conor108

Phony Scott wrote: »

It does look great alright, but I have a slight problem. Maybe I'm nitpicking, but if they're chasing after a Nazi war criminal in 2010, wouldn't that make the Nazi, at the very minimum, at least 85 years of age? The guy in the trailer doesn't look 85 to me...

It's flashbacks to the 1960's (1965 iirc) in East Berlin. Joseph Mengele is the doctor I think.

Phony Scott

Conor108 wrote: »

It's flashbacks to the 1960's (1965 iirc) in East Berlin. Joseph Mengele is the doctor I think.

According to IMDB, the plot desciption is as follows:

In 1965, three young Israeli Mossad agents on a secret mission capture and kill a notorious Nazi war criminal. Now, thirty years later, a man claiming to be the Nazi has surfaced in Ukraine and one of the former agents must go back undercover to seek out the truth.

That'd make it 1995, which is a bit more believable than the present day, so I'm wrong.

JP Liz V1

Anyone see yet? Is it any good?

branie

I saw it yesterday. It was very good

Sad Professor

I went to see this today and I wasn't impressed. Mediocre and predictable in the extreme. It's basically two separate films poorly linked together with different actors playing the same characters. In other words, Notebook syndrome.

The "first film" takes place in 1966 and stars Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas and Jake Sully and and involves a few plot elements that are very reminiscent of several episodes of Lost. There's a love triangle, a manipulative Henry Gale-type prisoner and a big lie which one of them threatens to reveal (a la the Oceanic 6). There's also the flashback structure and even a few shots which seem like they could have been taken from Lost. The film is supposed to be about these highly trained Mossad agents, but all the characters come across as poorly trained idiots.

The second film is basically a vehicle for Helen Mirren. Ciaran Hinds (who looks nothing like Jake Sully) is wasted and Tom Wilkinson (who looks nothing like Csokas) has nothing much to do either. This film ends with a pretty ridiculous conclusion involving a

knife fight between two elderly people, one of whom should still be able to kick the crap out of the other

.

Chastain (who has seven films out this year!) is the best thing about this. Brilliant actress who I think we are going to be seeing a lot of in years to come.

Colonel Kurtz

Just wondering if anyone has seen this yet?http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1226753/
The plot sounds very interesting, and the cast looks really good too, but some of the reviews I've read were not too promising.

Any thoughts on this?

SlipperyPeople

its good. nothing spectacular but yeah its worth the watch

Saw it in the cinema and really enjoyed it. The last third is the least interesting and I wished there had been more with the younger versions but overall it was a rather excellent thriller with a good story, a great cast and some fantastic moments.

Burning Eclipse

Deleted User wrote: »

Saw it in the cinema and really enjoyed it. The last third is the least interesting and I wished there had been more with the younger versions but overall it was a rather excellent thriller with a good story, a great cast and some fantastic moments.

Sums up my opinion on the movie perfectly...

Biggest surprise for me is that I'm now convinced Sam Worthington is a good actor. Genuinely enjoyed his performance.

Sad Professor

Threads merged. As for my thoughts on the film, see my post above. I wasn't mad about it to say the least.

Gee Bag

Watched this because it seemed like the least worst option at the time.

Have seen the same thing countless times before, lazy film-making never impresses.

Colonel Kurtz

Thanks for the comments. A bit of a mixed bag here.
Probably one to watch only if I'm looking to kill a few hours then:)