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Enjoyable diverting - but not much more.
A remake of the 2007 Israeli film of the same name, John Madden's Westernised take on the gritty espionage thriller is enjoyably diverting, if not much more. Tracking three Mossad agents across 2 timeframes – as young adults they embark on a perilous mission to capture a serial killing Nazi surgeon, 30 years later on they revisit their haunted memories – at that place's plenty going on story-wise. However it lacks that required edge to elevate information technology into spellbinding territory, largely due to the uninspiring way it'south shot and presented. The impressive line-up of actors don't disappoint; Martin Csokas, Sam Worthington and Jessica Chastain gel naturally as the inexperienced spies, whilst Tom Wilkinson, Ciaran Hinds and Helen Mirren add enormous clout as their elderly counterparts. Could've been ameliorate, could've been worse; a mixed thing actually.
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The Burden of Truth
Greetings again from the darkness. Espionage thrillers can be then much fun in both book and movie grade. Movies actually have a little reward for the action scenes. Books clearly have the advantage in details, backstory and character evolution. What is frustrating every bit a viewer is when a motion picture starts strong and then crumbles under the weight of expectation ... sometimes trying to make a bigger splash than necessary. Such is the instance with managing director John Madden'southward remake of the rarely-seen 2007 Israeli film "HA-HOV".
The story is centered around a 1965 mission of a trio of Mossad agents. Mossad is Israel's CIA. These iii agents, Rachel (Jessica Chastain), Stephan (Marton Csokas) and David (Sam Worthington) are to capture the notorious Nazi war criminal, the Surgeon of Birkenau (Jesper Christensen), and bring him dorsum for a proper trial of war time atrocities.
Flash forward to 1997 and Rachel's daughter has written a book about the daring mission and the 3 heroes. The older version of the characters are played by Helen Mirren (Rachel), Tom Wilkinson (Stephan) and Ciran Hinds (David). We are treated to flashbacks of the mission and how things took a wrong plough, but ended just fine. Or did they? There seems to be some inconsistencies with the story told and the actual events that have created much strain between Rachel and Stephan, and life-altering changes for the more sensitive David.
This is an odd motion-picture show because the best story parts occur when the younger bandage members are carrying out the 1965 mission. It is full of suspense and intrigue. The intensity and believability drops off significantly in the 1997 version, but oddly, the older actors are much more than fun to lookout man on screen ... especially the swell Helen Mirren. I am non sure what all of that really means, just for me, information technology meant the third act of the picture was a bit hokey and hard to buy.
Director John Madden is known for his fabulous "Shakespeare in Love", but not much else. His films since and so have all come up just a bit brusk of that very high bar he gear up 13 years ago. Jessica Chastain continues her fantastic 2011 flavor adding this operation to her more than spectacular turns in "Tree of Life" and "The Assistance". Sam Worthington is known for his role in "Avatar", but his character hither is so thinly written, I incertitude any actor could take pulled it off. Jesper Christensen seems to usually play the bad guy and he is in total glory here as a Nazi war criminal with no regrets.
The showtime half volition keep you lot on the edge of your seat, but by the end you will have a somewhat empty feeling. What a shame as this one teased usa with much hope.
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Some riveting moments but the casting of master characters leads to confusion...
The plot of THE DEBT is rather enigmatic and a scrap confusing considering of the technique of cut back and forth between past and nowadays. Added to this is an even more problematic factor: the younger and older counterparts don't look a bit alike, so keeping track of them by character names can go along a viewer in a distracted frame of heed.
Other than the script problems, it must be said that the interim is all on a high level, and the story is particularly engaging during the earlier 1967 sequences. This is partly due to the fact that Rachel (Jessica Chastain) gives the well-nigh impressive performance in the moving-picture show and is someone who immediately involves you in the story. She emerges subsequently on into the Helen Mirren prototype, which is not quite apparent in my stance. Mirren does a fine job as the mature Rachel and her terminal scenes with the man she has been hunting down is staged realistically with gut-wrenching violence.
If you lot tin get beyond the casting problems involved, the story is taut with suspense but told at a rather leisurely footstep.
Tom Wilkinson and Martin Csokas as old and young Stephan; Ciaran Hinds and Sam Worthington every bit sometime and young David; and Jesper Christensen as Dr. Vogel give performances that cannot be praised highly enough. The only drawback is that the resemblance between young and old is entirely missing, a fatal flaw when a pic is told in cross-cuts between by and present.
Hunting down an ex-Nazi surgeon who has committed war crimes ever makes for an interesting story idea...but in this case, at that place are too many flaws to make the film wholly successful.
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Worst Mossad agents ever
I usually like tense spy thrillers, simply I was seriously disappointed by this one. The "real" action takes place in 1965, when iii Mossad agents work in East Berlin to apprehend a Nazi criminal.
Contrary to Mossad'due south reputation, these are the worst agents, ever. Two young men and a adult female (Rachel, played by Chastain) who get entangled in a sexual activity triangle and mess up their mission, because they are too busy with their cavorting.
Besides existence unprofessional in their beliefs, they are besides easily influenced by the Nazi criminal, turned into earnest. If it was me, I could not intendance less about the blathering of a criminal Nazi, simply these three Jew agents listen to him every bit if he was the oracle of Delphi.
Back to the future, in 1995, their muddy little secret is almost out in the open. The escaped Nazi is going to requite an interview to an Ukranian newspaper. Therefore, the woman (older Rachel, played past Mirren) is sent to Ukraina to silence him for good.
The picture show ends with a geriatric denouement. Whatsoever is accomplished falls into the category of "besides piddling, too belatedly". I seriously hope real agents are made of better stuff than these three. Too, spy movies deserve more than engaging characters.
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Keen suspense and some 18-carat surprises.
The Debt is a Nazi hunt/spy thriller all rolled into 1 and information technology's nice to meet a classic thriller that takes the subject thing seriously and relies on suspense to keep the states in its grip. I was at the edge of my seat for nigh of the time and there'due south plenty of surprising turns in the story to keep even the virtually jaded enthralled.
Most of todays inept filmmakers rely on blowing stuff up hoping that this will count as suspense. Information technology also is such a breath of fresh air in an appalling year of C -course superhero movies and obscure comic volume adaptations. Hopefully this does well so Hollywood can go dorsum to making well written thrillers and dramas like they used to.
Best suspense thriller of 2011 and so far.
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a terrible and distasteful story - don't sentinel it
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This is a terrible movie with a dreadful and unpleasant story.
Helen Mirren didn't need to do this nonsense. She is above this. Jessica Chastain as her younger self acts well simply it's such an unpleasant function. How did Sam Worthington turn into Cirian Hinds? Terrible casting. Tom Wilkinson is too English for an Israeli.
The fight at the end betwixt Helen and the butcher is absurd both in age ( he must have been 100) and plot.
The story is non flattering to both the Mossad or the Germans. It makes a joke of the agents. Stop making holocaust movies based on bad stories like the Reader and this one - there are plenty skilful true stories to base on rather than using this drivel.
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Sharp first two-thirds let down by the end of the moving-picture show
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I knew well-nigh zip virtually this film other than it had some skilful buzz and Helen Mirren was in it. No idea of the plot, setting, etc., which is rare, and then I went in about as blindly equally 1 can.
The Debt, in example you are equally ill-informed as I, is about a trio of Israeli agents in the mid-60s who infiltrate East Berlin to track downwards a former Nazi concentration camp doc and bring him to justice. The team consists of Stephen (the great Marton Csokas), David (Sam Worthington), and Rachel (Jessica Chastain), and they have their own inner tensions – in that location'due south a semi-love triangle, David is overly secretive, and so on. Interspersed with this plot are scenes where the three of them are older (and except for Rachel, look totally different), looking back on the incident, as Rachel's daughter has written a book almost it (older Rachel is, of grade, Mirren).
Sometimes this kind of crosscutting works in a picture, but here it is somewhat confusing because older David (Ciaran Hinds) and older Stephen (Tom Wilkinson) await nothing like their younger counterparts, so yous take to sort of play 'who's who' for a while until it sorts itself out. Too, they seem to prove you the climax of the 60s plot in the beginning, so some of the tension seems to be missing from that thread… until the big twist in the eye of the film, which catapults the activity into the mod mean solar day. This is where the picture really grinds to a crawl; the older counterparts are then dissimilar from their younger versions that it's nigh like starting a 2d movie an hour and ten minutes in. I had a hard time caring about the older characters, and they dominate completely the last 3rd of the film.
Mirren of class is expert, and Hinds plays older David with a wonderfully haunted mien (he'south not in the pic enough to brand any deeper impression). All three of the immature leads are fantabulous –Worthington tin sometimes come off as flat, just hither he underplays David, and he'southward excellent (his final scene with Rachel is subtle and exceptional). Chastain, whom I'thou not familiar with, is stellar here; we bond with Rachel instantly, and she's an intriguing grapheme. Obviously I similar Csokas and he's in his condolement zone hither, playing a confident, intelligent prick, merely he'due south magnetic.
It's probably because the young leads are so good that the older ones come off and then dull and unappealing (even Mirren), and frankly the storyline in the present solar day (well, the late 90s, their present day) seems trite and featherbrained next to the danger of East Berlin and an ex-Nazi gynecologist. That shift, which may have worked well in a novel (or perhaps in the original Israeli version of the movie), stops the film dead in its tracks, and while we're following the present, flashbacks to the past merely drag downward the current activeness more. It's a risky proposition to split a plot between younger and older versions of characters anyway, though it's been washed well elsewhere; but here the schism is too jarring, too great to be overcome, and you're left wishing they would have just stayed in the Sixties when the movie was interesting.
Overall information technology'southward a mediocre moving-picture show, with some parts very well washed and others irritatingly flat. Had the nowadays day plot line been anywhere near every bit compelling, this would have been a standout picture show; every bit it is, information technology's a take-it-or-leave-it proposition. Some parts are definitely worth a look, simply the parts don't add up to a satisfying whole, and with the talent involved, I tin can't shake the nagging feeling they should accept.
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Not the powerhouse information technology should accept been
In John Madden's The Debt, three young strangers in 1965 East Berlin seek to discover and capture The Surgeon of Birkenau, a ruthless doctor that performed horrific acts on imprisoned Jews during World State of war Ii.
The threesome are played past Sam Worthington, Marton Csokas and Jessica Chastain who embody David, Stefan and Rachel respectively in their younger years. Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson and Helen Mirren play the characters when the film switches between the 1960'southward to the end of 1999.
The pic flips between the thirty year time frame liberally in the first third of the picture. We lookout as the immature David, Stefan and Rachel welcome us to 'The Mission' and follow them through the intricate plot details that, if all goes correctly, will bring the doctor to across the Berlin wall to face trial for his actions. Young Rachel will pose as a patient to gain access to the doc and when confirmation is received, she will use her special grooming to subdue the surgeon then that Stefan and David tin transport him alive to West Berlin and so dorsum to Israel.
But things don't go according to program and shortly the iii are forced to remain in hiding with their prisoner until they can make up one's mind a new course of activeness. It's while cooped up in their apartment that the doctor begins to use mind games in an effort to gain the psychological reward while revealing the truthful evil behind his words.
In more modernistic times, we learn that Rachel and Stefan had both married and divorced. Their girl has written a book nigh the abduction and the days that followed in the apartment detailing her parents as heroes to the cause.
But recent developments and an unexpected suicide by David leave Stefan and Rachel in the aforementioned position they were thirty years ago. And i must travel back to Europe to seek out someone who claims to exist the original Surgeon of Birkenau.
John Madden is no stranger to accolade winning dramas. Shakespeare in Beloved won out over Saving Individual Ryan and Ethan Frome was a well received romance back in 1993. Madden works the camera similar a maestro in effortlessly weeding the story through multiple decades. The movie never loses focus and relies on its strengths – namely the performances of Mirren, Csokas and Chastain – to behave the heavy plot line forward.
However, in the final acts, the story gets a little lost. Watching Mirren head to Kiev, Ukraine was a bound of faith and political, social and moral values begin to asphyxiate the life out of what was a better than average thriller upward to that point.
With the conclusion of The Debt being likewise heavy handed to maintain the thin weight of the showtime ¾, The Debt eventually fails to be the film that showed honor promise in the trailers. We are not suggesting that The Debt is a bad motion picture, but its final reel wilt does take away from the execution of its predecessors.
Mirren may still go award recognition come December (the film is officially released December 29th), but it may be a long shot to see The Debt as one of the Best Pic nominees.
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At last, a movie that is as intelligent every bit it is entertaining
This espionage thriller is an English-linguistic communication version of a 2007 Israeli film "Ha-Hov" and it is immediately credible why an adaptation that volition inevitably win a much larger audience was made. This is a gripping tale, intelligently told and cleverly synthetic. Information technology is much more exiting than the other spy motion picture of the summer of 2011 "Tinker Tailor Solider Spy" and a much more authentic representation of the Israeli secret service Mossad than "Munich".
Essentially we have two stories here, set up in different times (1965 and 1997) and different locations (Berlin and State of israel/Ukraine) only involving the aforementioned characters; still director John Madden - whose first success was the contrasting "Shakespeare In Dear" - has done a proficient job in interweaving the two narratives in a manner which requires the viewer to re-evaluate regularly both situations and motivations. The early on period works better than the later one and fortunately information technology accounts for the majority of the picture, but this is almost two hours of sustained tension.
Unusually in that location are vii potent roles in 1 film. The three Mossad agents Stephan, David and Rachel are played by Marton Csokas, Sam Worthington and Jessica Chastain respectively in the Common cold War menstruation and portrayed by Tom Wilkinson, Ciarán Hinds and Helen Mirren respectively in the modern day setting, while the Danish Jesper Christensen is the surgeon of Birkenau throughout the story and gives this profoundly unsympathetic part a subtle psychological dimension.
Although nigh of these roles are male, information technology is the two female person performances that are peculiarly memorable. Mirren has had a bright career and it is wonderful to see her at the top of her game in her sixties, while Chastain seems to have all of a sudden burst into movies with "The Tree Of Live" and clearly has a major career ahead of her.
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Casting?!
Surely the older (recent) male person actors were around the incorrect fashion? Dislocated the hell out of me.
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The Debt'southward potential is spoiled by sloppy writing
Is the truth actually what happened or what anybody believes happened? The Debt attempts to answer the question and almost succeeds if it were not for some very poor screen writing. It is 1966 and Mossad has finally tracked down the infamous Birkenau surgeon, Dieter Vogel (Jesper Christensen). Dr. Vogel is very loftier on the list of Nazi war criminals the Israelis are hunting down because of the atrocities he committed at his concentration camp. He would deliberately blind children to see if he could change eye color and cut off hands and feet and reattach them on the incorrect limbs to see what happened.
The spy team assigned to kidnap him and bring him to justice are team leader Stephan (Marton Csokas), David (Sam Worthington), and Rachel (Jessica Chastain). Their story is told in flashback and the first half of it is admittedly riveting. Rachel poses every bit a woman with fertility problems and becomes a patient of Dr. Vogel who is hiding equally an OBGYN in the Soviet sector of East Berlin. The tension during the examination room scenes are the highlight of the moving-picture show with both Rachel and the doctor verbally maneuvering to ensure the other person is who they recollect they are.
Afterward a disarming action sequence, the story abruptly turns from a kidnap/escape scenario into a hostage situation. This is one of the points where the film only falls apart. Mossad and their agents are the best in the entire world at their art. There is no way such highly trained agents would fall victim to and resort to the amateur hour theatrics which come up with the hostage sequence. The script is riddled with casuistic and baroque events which only occur during the flick's nearly important sequences for some reason.
Fast forward to 1997 and at present older Rachel (Helen Mirren) is at her daughter'southward volume release party which describes the squad's successful mission to Berlin all those years ago. Older Stephen (Tom Wilkinson) is as well effectually for the recollections. The 1997 scenes are adeptly written and filmed, especially scenes with Mirren. Tom Wilkerson is just along for the ride. Unfortunately, the movie'southward climax is one of the most preposterous situations a decent film has been saddled with. It is so ridiculous that a two hour meeting with the writers would even so non convince me this was the best way to resolve the story's actions and problems. The mood and atmosphere are destroyed and the audience collectively shook their heads in disbelief at the mockery on screen.
Screenwriters Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman (Ten-Men: First Class, Kick-Donkey), and Peter Straughan (The Men Who Stare at Goats) adapted this screenplay from an earlier moving-picture show. The Debt'south first hour is quite adept with practiced catamenia from 1997 to 1966 and the truly suspenseful scenes between Chastain and Christensen. However, their treatment of the hostage state of affairs and the absurd climax are what actually hurt this flick and makes the audience shake their heads with the 'Oh, what might have been' lament.
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A debt of gratitude for an enjoyable movie
It'due south e'er dainty when you lot see a motion picture trailer that looks pretty good, and then when yous run across the flick information technology far exceeds your expectations. The Debt, a remake of a 2007 Israeli flick of the aforementioned name, is a suspenseful espionage thriller virtually a team of Israeli Mossad agents as they attempt to track downwards "the Surgeon of Birkenau". The moving picture incorporates flashbacks and flash-forwards in a controllable fashion, with approximately one-half the picture taking place in 1966 and the other half taking place in 1997. The film is based on a screenplay co-written by Jane Goldman and frequent co-collaborator, Matthew Vaughn, a rising star known for his writing and directing of films such every bit the underrated Kick -Ass and the 2011 summer hit 10-Men: Showtime Class. Director John Madden, all-time known for his Oscar winning pic Shakespeare in Love, crafts an intriguing motion picture that although anticipated at times keeps you engaged. In The Debt, Madden has made some great choices in casting; beginning with Oscar winner Helen Mirren and Oscar nominee Tom Wilkinson, both of whom provide stellar performances. Jessica Chastain, Martin Csokas, and Sam Worthington, although not having any Oscar nominations of their own, requite captivating performances during the movie's near brooding scenes.
I enjoy espionage films, such every bit Munich, Spy Game and North by Northwest, immensely. The Debt's strength, much like those other three films, is that it's character and story driven and non dependant on action or special effects to maintain its viewers. The pacing is steady and at that place's a lot of intensity as the agents attempt to accomplish their mission. The field of study matter of the film is a dark one, and that'south reflected in the film. Unlike your neighborhood police department or canton sheriff's department, intelligence agencies do whatever is necessary to get the result they are seeking; such as some uncomfortable visits, for the patient every bit well every bit the viewer, with Dr. Bernhardt, played disturbingly by Jesper Christensen The pic kept me intrigued throughout, and I find myself often sliding up to the edge of my seat, unable to tear my eyes away from what was happening. As the moving picture drew to a close, most questions are answered and closure is provided, unlike merely most every other flick made today.
Grade: B+
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Engaging Espionage Thriller with Disappointing Conclusion
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In 1965, the Mossad agents Rachel (Jessica Chastain), Stephan (Marton Csokas) and David (Sam Worthington) are assigned to kidnap the Nazi Dieter Vogel (Jesper Christensen), a.k.a. The Surgeon of Birkenau, in Eastward Berlin. They succeed in the abduction merely neglect in bringing him to the w side. While staying with him in an apartment edifice, Vogel escapes but the trio of young agents lies to their government and tells that Rachel killed Vogel while he was running away. They accept been honored in their state past their activity for more than thirty years.
In 1997, Rachel'south daughter Sarah Gold (Romi Aboulafia) releases a book in Tel Aviv near the mission of her female parent and the ii other agents. Rachel Singer (Helen Mirren), Sarah's father Stephan Gold (Tom Wilkinson), who is paralytic, and David Peretz (Ciarán Hinds), who is missing, are retired and Rachel is uncomfortable with the lie that they have been living with.
Out of the blue, David appears in Tel Aviv and commits suicide. Stephan investigates and finds that Dieter Vogel is plainly live in a infirmary in Kiev, Ukraine, and will be interviewed by a journalist. At present Rachel has to travel to Kiev to conclude what they should accept done thirty years ago.
"The Debt" is an engaging espionage thriller with proficient story and development of characters, peachy screenplay, interim and direction only a disappointing decision. In that location are flaws, merely final redemption of Rachel is unjustifiable for a person that has lived with a prevarication for more than thirty years and whose determination would not affect simply her life, but the lives of her daughter, her one-time partner and mainly people of her nation who had believed on their words. Sometimes a prevarication may be useful and that was the case. Her decision will certainly only bring pain and nothing else. My vote is vii.
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An unfulfilled debt!
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The all-time aspect of this movie is the acting, the suspenseful editing and the pacing of the motion picture. Unfortunately it ends there and the most of import part of the movie, the storyline and script, suffers.
Too much of The Debt seems forced upon the viewer. We are expected to believe and take the story because that is what is beingness shown to the states. I went in expecting more out of this film and instead I plant myself sitting through piddling more a forgettable fabricated-for-Boob tube drama.
In that location were a few aspects of this pic that spoiled it for me. (SPOILER ALERT!) Start and most noticeable, such things every bit micro-chip high-definition cameras which could fit into a piece of jewelry the size of a thumbnail, did non exist in the 1960's. Without this piece of mod twenty-four hour period equipment, evidently our heroes weren't going to exist able to bear witness the existence of 'The Surgeon', so what the hell, give these' threescore'south spies a slice of technology xx to thirty years before it fifty-fifty existed.
Side by side, do non be fooled into accepting that a Due west Berlin railroad train station stop existed between the divided cities and the only thing separating the two sides was a chain link fence and a squad of guards. Also, don't accept that at that place was a manufacturing plant with different shifts of workers who were working x yards from this so called 'highly guarded and secure' edge crossing. I lived in Due west Berlin from 1970-71, the communists went to great lengths years before I always got there, to articulate out kill zones, and construct walls and mine fields between any area that separated the east and westward. Whatever building, like this supposed factory side by side to the train cease, would have had all the windows and doors cemented over so that it was impossible for whatsoever resident of East Berlin to fifty-fifty see into West Berlin. The entire escape sequence in this motion-picture show was also far-fetched and left me wondering if this function of the script had been written upward equally a last minute 'oh what the hell, permit's exercise this…' Conspicuously someone forgot to do their homework.
Why is information technology that the movie never explains how information technology is that a doctor tin be kidnapped, and a few weeks later he manages to escape, yet no police or agents from Eastward Berlin bother to investigate him or the incident? Wouldn't you think that his married woman would have gone to the police? You don't recall that the undercover police of Eastward Berlin or the KGB would accept raised an countenance and wanted to find out how this doctor came up missing – or that he only reappeared? I judge nosotros aren't supposed to ask such questions or attempt and fill in the missing time line. And don't you recollect that just once, sometime during the end of WWII, the Russians would have been out looking for this doctor every bit well – and yet here he is, operating nether their very noses? Don't forget that the Russians hated the Nazis fifty-fifty worse than the Israelis did. But I approximate that doesn't come into play in this motion picture.
So, we are simply supposed accept the fact that somehow this maniac dr. made it dorsum to his married woman and exercise, and so years later he ends upwards in a mental infirmary thousands of miles abroad – for no apparent reason or caption. Gee – I'll bite, I've come this far… how much worse tin it get? If all of that wasn't hard enough to swallow, oh await a second, now our hero is going deep into Russian federation to kill him over again, only now it's not really him. But worry non, because he'll just coincidently happened to be walking by in the fly of a mental hospital, and our super spy who has been out of work for years, will see him out of the corner of her middle, hunt him downwardly and impale him. Of course she will – I should accept seen this ane coming.
I'm not that naive to purchase this story – but obviously I was duped enough to get see this movie.
If all you are looking for is some decent acting and good suspenseful editing, and you don't intendance how ridiculous or giddy the storyline is, then this is a motion-picture show for you. If you want something that gives you a little better of both, pop in The American (starring George Clooney) into the DVD and lookout something a little more adequate.
Whoever was responsible for approving this storyline – did and then because they needed to throw 'something' together to pay off a personal debt!
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The Debt owes me
The Debt owes me back the two hours of my life I spent watching this dumb film. I said this in my review of "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" and I'll say it once more hither. When the storyline devolves into crap like this we accept reached the point of diminishing returns on screenplays about things related to the Holocaust. The screenplay is full of stupid plot points that have either already been said a million times already or are completely irrelevant to this story. The story spans two generations and manages to say naught important about either. Usually if I don't intendance for a film I won't bother to review it. When I really dislike a moving-picture show I sometimes experience an obligation to review it and warn others. In this example I don't dislike it plenty to shred information technology as it deserves. Merely don't bother to see information technology. You won't accept missed anything.
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the Mossad that couldn't SPOILER or do much else straight
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who would read these reviews & NOT EXPECT "SPOILERS", then here they are ...
Afterwards they become him dorsum to their apt, they 1. hold shouting matches nigh him to tell him what they're thinking, doing, non doing, etc etc etc. Real smart. Effin Einsteins.
ii. do a pathetic job of tying him upward merely I'1000 certain they did it b/c they didn't want to exist inconvenienced whenever they got him up for his hourly strolls around the apt.
iii. have to take "shifts" watching him. Huh? In that location are iii of them. Practice they take a newspaper route & pizza delivery on the side? Where were the OTHER TWO spending all their time? Were they at the cyberspace café using skype to HQ & watching porn? Effin ridiculous.
4. I didn't take hold of how much fourth dimension elapsed between Dave punching him out & his escape. Only WTF, during all that fourth dimension, they just left him sitting there with precipitous, pointy objects lying all effectually him. Effin BRILLIANT! v. oh jeez, the list could go on but ...
In a different vein, the fact that they hadn't already killed him afterward learning that "there is no programme", is a bit of a joke too. Heed, ppl who make a career out of CARRYING GUNS are not so hesitant to kill. Heck, American cops impale innocent Americans constantly.
To tiptop it off, the terminal scene in the bathroom where she but lets an old cadaver beat her up was Classic. I guess they have a gym & a dojo in that hospital to go on the 80 year sometime in tip-top fighting shape.
At present I cant wait to hear from all the "I believe everything my movies show me" sheeples how this all makes so much sense. Yeah, it makes SENSE to shout out how your program is effed upwards & you have no fill-in programme & all your other problems And then YOUR Captive CAN HEAR YOU. LMFAO.
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Become Run into This Film...Now
I went to The Debt considering I had seen the trailers ages ago and was instantly telling myself I wanted to see this film. Not to be reminded nigh one of the ugliest of human stains in globe history; not because I wanted to think virtually images in a WWII documentary I happened to watch unattended at an adult party when I was seven years old and will never forget (just, I try); not because I wanted something to experience bad about.
I went because of the reviews, the trailer, and Helen Mirren, and pretty much the unabridged ensemble of vivid actors. It was a bit slow starting according to my companion, and some of the initial flashbacks left one a lilliputian confused, and and so one time the story started when the Mossad agents were in Germany to runway down and bring the "Surgeon of Birkenau" to trial, I was so glad it was a reminder film. That no i will ever fully understand what drives a nation and group like the Mossad to exercise what they do. This made me sympathize a petty flake more.
This was a very tragic, thoughtful film with the embodiment of the mortal whorl and well worth watching and thinking well-nigh. Helen Mirren and Jessica Chastain as the immature Rachel were and then skillful. Give Mirren another Oscar already. And, the men, including the "Surgeon" who I wanted to impale myself, were all and so very good in this.
I don't agree the film lagged at the terminate. In fact, it left y'all wondering, questioning, the twist was unexpected, and I am glad, despite the lingering tears in my eyes equally I write this, that I saw it. My fellow cinematic partner agreed as well. Go meet this picture. You won't forget it. And, we really shouldn't ever forget it.
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Does for the holocaust what Cameron did for the Titanic
I will, no dubiety, exist chastised for my poor rating of this movie, should anyone happen to stumble across information technology. The interim is great and the cinematography is very well done. In fact, it is the quality of the motion-picture show-making that initially fools one into thinking they are seeing a meaningful story. But when the moving picture ends and yous really reflect upon what you have seen, you find a tepid story non worth telling. Basically this movie does for the holocaust what James Cameron's "Titanic" did for one of the greatest maritime disasters in history. It trivializes it with a ridiculous fictional story of self-captivated, small people, when in that location must exist abundant truly engaging real-life stories available from that era of larger than life heroes.
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Not and so... good.
One of those movies that on the surface is great merely ane logical question at any point in the film puts information technology right in the dumpster. The elaborate capture scheme, the blown extraction, the earnest situation while coming upward with program "B" all falls apart when you effort to find the logic in their actions. Why not grab him off the street in one case they accept solid ID? (Peradventure the evil doc and the missus commuted together? Nevertheless, a snatch and grab would still make more sense and be less risky.) Wouldn't you tie him up a little improve in the back of the van? I don't recollect any agent in the world would put that much trust in pharmaceuticals. Promise for the all-time and plan for the worst. Dorsum at the ranch after their rollicking escape, why agonize over plan B? Shoulda just busted a cap in him in the back of the van and headed for home. Or, if getting him back to Isreal was a that big a priority, merely the secondary choice falls autonomously, knock him off in the apartment and... caput for home. I couldln't help but think that'south what the folks in Tel Aviv would have ordered. (Bank check our "Munich", Mossad had no problem with "snuff and run" in that story.)
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Peachy Movie
A movie that is entirely driven by the plot is refreshing these days. The script is well written and the acting very proficient. The dialog and interaction between the Dr. form Birkenau and the more troubled of the three young agents builds up in great narrative drama. The twists in the plot keep coming. Everything falls into place, fifty-fifty the somber air of the characters at the start of the movie. To me, the movie really starts with the first twist in the story, a good 45 minutes into the film. Your listen has got to reset the sequence. I thought this is getting interesting.
Volition those who you love the nearly, adopt your trophies or your truth? Mirren'southward character pick was clear. I enjoyed this film very much, it does actually make you retrieve. How often does that happen these days?
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If this were a book, it'd exist one bloody folio turner
I saw an advance screening of The Debt tonight. I'll admit, it was a film I kept my eye on once I read about it on the IMDb message boards for Avatar some fourth dimension ago, since Avatar was another film with Sam Worthngton. I remember information technology looking pretty interesting, even so I'd not heard about it for some time after due to the delays. However during July, it had gotten advertised more than, and I was ready to mark downwardly August 31st as a "must see" engagement. However when I got a pass in an Alliance Films giveaway, I was excited.
And thankfully this moving picture did not disappoint. The movie comes out next week, I'd say get meet information technology.
A remake of the 2007 Israeli film of the same name, which I'll admit to having non seen, The Debt follows two of 3 secret agents who went on a mission to capture the surgeon of Birkneau, and bring him to State of israel to expose him for the crimes he committed against Jewish humanity during WWII. His horrifying experiments have left thousands expressionless in fell and gory means. The gang had a plan set in place, and according to a new book written virtually the ordeal, the mission was completed. However, something about the mission has come back to haunt them... And furthermore, that very some 30 years after, thing has the two remaining agents fearing for what happens adjacent in life!
I don't want to give too much away, considering believe me, the nervousness and suspense I felt throughout the movie is unmatched past any other picture show I saw this year. Believe me, this motion picture is insanely well written. Matthew Vaughn of Kick-Donkey and X-Men Starting time Class fame wrote the script, and boy you can tell he did. His charm and genius are all over the film, in a different style than the 2 mentioned films, but his clever writing style is at that place. The dialogue is sharp and witty, the turn of events is clever. At that place'due south loads of suspense throughout the motion picture. Seriously, not one scene had me feeling calm at all. The motion picture was high octane, ferociously suspenseful thrill ride that had me on the edge of my seat from the starting time frame.
The film likewise has a great ability to surprise people, and believe me, this movie is filled to the brim with surprise and intrigue. The picture show's central twist is especially shocking. Believe me, the movie definitely toys with your expectations and perception of events in pretty much every way possible. But the central twist is specially a shocker, equally it completely comes out of nowhere and strikes you blindly. At the screening, yous could feel everyone tense up, and especially as the motion-picture show reaches its shattering climax, the suspense just got more unbearable. Nevertheless, there is some good Vaughn style humour thrown in there for good measure besides.
The films' performances are fantastic. Helen Mirren shines as per usual every bit Rachel, and her young counterpart is not only very pretty but amazingly talented likewise. Jesper Christensen is amazingly scary as the villain, Vogel, and he does so without any gimmicks. Just the real surprise is Sam Worthington every bit David. Believe me, he really, truly shines here. His portrayal is very disarming, and he manages to show to the audience that he is not just a pretty face. Besides as the film'southward direction is slick and precipitous. madden has a fantastic eye for a shot, and it shows, there are a lot of moments of visual brilliance too, and some shots even look chilling at times.
In short, The Debt is the biggest surprise of the year, and a truthful shiner in a dark historic period for movie house nowadays. If you would like to watch a movie that for once isn't 3D, for once doesn't forcefulness feed you with gimmicks, don't reject this full tilt activity thrill ride. Although I saw it for free at a screening, I would have felt similar my money was put to good use if I paid to come across it too. Do not miss this film!
OVERALL: 10/10
Pros: The Debt is an action packed, unbearably suspenseful motion picture that is remarkably well written, stylishly shot and ferociously thrilling, a film not to exist missed.
Cons: None I can call up of...
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Awful ridiculous wearisome
The worst Cold State of war movie I can remember. The parts that were supposed to exist suspenseful nosotros're so drawn out I forgot I was watching a movie. Facts were wrong, anachronisms abounded then I couldn't focus. The idea that a woman in 1965 would walk around an apartment in her towel with ii guys and then hang around in a robe while they were fully dressed was so ridiculous as to make any sexual tension unbelievable. Perhaps I am just also old and tin can remember how radical it was when I did like things in the tardily 1970s. The guys in 1965 would have been afraid of this woman.
The sappy sentimentality of Mossad agents sympathizing with a Nazi butcher was likewise also irksome and unbelievable to me. This motion-picture show seemed made for children of the 2000s or maybe the 1990s. This is not a iv star pic which implies that it is a classic. There is no way this movie should outlast The Terminator.
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Fine bandage in a weak fictional motion picture
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The fine performances of the unabridged cast of "The Debt" are my only reason for giving this movie six stars. The story had proficient potential equally a post-Holocaust and World War II thriller. Only its very subject -- an functioning by the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, is what loses credit for the picture show. That's because of the several failings of the agents in the operation. It wasn't long into the film when my attention was drawn more to the mistakes of the expertly trained agents, than to the mission itself and the intrigue surrounding it. Then, I before long constitute myself watching for the next mistake instead of existence engrossed in the story itself. I don't retrieve that's what the filmmakers want of any audience. Simply, I suspect this may have been true for any number of other viewers as well, judging from some of the reviews I've read.
While whatever covert operation is jump to run into a glitch here or at that place, I don't know of any true events that accept had so many glitches. This movie of course, is fiction. Just consider some of the real covert operations that accept succeeded for Israel. On May 11, 1960, Mossad agents abducted Nazi Adolf Eichmann from Argentina where he had been in hiding since 1950. He was tried in Israel for his leadership in the Holocaust and was hanged in 1962. Numerous other operations by the Israeli intelligence network accept occurred in many countries. And, on July iv, 1976, Israeli intelligence and the war machine planned and carried out a huge counter- terrorist endeavor. Operation Thunderbolt was the name of the Israeli commando raid on the Entebbe International Airdrome in Republic of uganda. That raid covered more than than 2,500 miles to free the remaining hostages of an Air France flight that had been hijacked. It took just one week to plan and carry out the raid. A TV flick was made on that operation in 1976 -- "Raid on Entebbe."
So, in "The Debt" we have a fictitious operation carried out past three agents in 1965. Mossad was established in 1947, and its agents were highly trained and adept in all aspects of covert operations. Indeed, the pic shows their manus-to-hand gainsay skills early. Only one of the agents – Stephan Gold (played by Tom Wilkinson and Marton Csokas) appears to be fully competent though. Just even he fails to brand sure that Dieter Vogel is completely secured when they begin their escape. Had Vogel not been able to honk the horn in the van and draw the attention of the East German language guards, the abduction-escape looked similar it would work.
The young Rachel Singer and David Perez made mistake later mistake. They violated training and listened and reacted to the talk of their prisoner, Vogel. In both instances, it led to serious errors on their part. Merely, fifty-fifty after those errors, they didn't recover. In the first instance, David doesn't think to clean upwardly broken pieces of a dish that could be used to cutting ropes – as Vogel indeed used a slice of broken glass to get free and then to attack Rachel. Rachel also failed to clean up the entire mess herself. And, when she saw that Vogel had gotten complimentary, she walked into the room where she could be attacked from behind. She didn't alert her fellow agents kickoff. She didn't pull her gun, and approach the room by checking each side. She merely walked alee with a dumb-founded wait of disbelief that the prisoner wasn't still tied up where he was. Is there a single viewer of this film who didn't know she would exist attacked from backside?
Now, I credit the actors with very good performances. But, the script and direction that had these agents act similar such stumble-bums is a very poor characterization of what may be the globe'due south most competently trained and able covert agents. But, fifty-fifty with Rachel's seeming lack of security and pursuit training, she seemed to be able to take downward her two male agents, both much bigger men and close to her historic period. She showed that power again when she was able to subdue Vogel in his md's part. She was 25 and he was close to 60. But, he defeats her after he escapes following a heavy chirapsia past David. And then, at the film'due south cease, the once more alert but not alert Rachel is taken downwardly by Vogel. Only this time, she'south 57 years old and he is over 90 years old. And then much for her abilities.
Other aspects of this moving picture – wrestling with truth, selfishness versus concern for others, etc. get convoluted and don't find whatsoever resolution. And then, the catastrophe is probably right on. We don't know if Rachel lives to see her daughter shamed or non. But, she has taken the steps to run across that that will happen. And and then at that place is the tough David who was so bent on justice for one of the Nazi henchmen who contributed to the killing of his whole family unit. He is so hurt in censor by the travail of their failed mission after thirty years, and the thought that nobody else knows the truth, that he has to step in front of a truck to finish his own life of misery. Maybe this film is more virtually pride than anything else. That would explain why the agents would lie – to cover up their incompetency. Instead of for the good of all Israel – as Stephan argued. This movie might have one redeeming value. It could be used as a training film for new recruits and old hands in the security and intelligence fields. It shows what not to do, and what happens when ane doesn't follow his or her preparation.
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A decent film that deserved a amend ending
The Debt has several things going for information technology: an interesting story and some fine performances. It's a pity that the ending was disappointing.
I'd like to commend Helen Mirren on her functioning and even though she gets top billing she's non in it much and when she is her performance doesn't merit the top billing. The stars of the movie are undoubtedly the younger characters played by Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington and Martin Csokas for information technology is with them that the events of 1966 are played out and we become a glimpse of what the trio went through during their mission. Jessica was quite fantabulous, and demonstrates the stress put on a immature and inexperienced agent thrust into East Berlin in the 1960s. Marton, as the leader of the trio, was skillful and his character was never demanding nor bullying in the manner some unit leaders tin can become. Sam Worthington was competent, and maybe a piddling subdued, portraying a shy man with more going on inside his head than he wanted the world to see.
At that place is a plot twist, which I won't mention, and which was cleverly bearded in the trailers, which provides turns the story on its head and propels the movie towards the finish that I establish disappointing. If someone waits more than thirty years to develop a guilty conscience, something that was not properly developed for one of the characters, then it makes information technology difficult to believe that they would become about with their decision in a divide second and undo everything they stood for. It made their outset early determination to be quite pointless and in the stop more damaging to others than for the main characters. Some would argue that the catastrophe was just fine but in movies that'southward all well and good just in real life information technology's not equally simple as that. Then, I felt a piddling bit let downwardly for a pic that I was very interested in watching.
Is it worth recommending, then? Well, the ending probably won't carp likewise many people then it is worth watching as the movie keeps a fine level of tension throughout the movie and so you're never to certain which way things are going to go until information technology occurs.
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Jessica Chastain is amazing
In 1997 Tel Aviv, Sarah writes a book jubilant her parents Rachel Singer (Helen Mirren) and Stephan Gilded (Tom Wilkinson) as well as David Peretz (Ciarán Hinds) who ran a successful Mossad operation to hunt downward the surgeon of Birkenau in 1966 East Germany. As Stephan is about to take in David, David deliberately walks in forepart of a truck and gets killed. There are family secrets and state secrets as the film tells the story from 1965. Rachel (Jessica Chastain) is on her first mission. Stephan (Marton Csokas) is the leader with David (Sam Worthington) completing the grouping. Their target is Dr. Bernhardt (Jesper Christensen) who they doubtable is the evil Dieter Vogel.
I similar the spy thriller mystery in this. The biggest and most amazing thing in this motion picture is Jessica Chastain. She is a revelation. It's definitely a big hurdle to play a younger Helen Mirren. She handles it with no issues. Marton Csokas is compelling but Sam Worthington is very wooden. Jesper Christensen does a very interesting murky functioning. All of it is put together in a nice tranquillity thriller.
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