Monday, September 4, 2017

The Monuments Men (2014)



An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners.

An otherwise highly interesting episode of  WWII is (intentionally) treated like a Dirty Dozen-style war adventure complete with a good-humoured cast, light action and some sombre moments; mildy entertaining, though, it is.

Maltin**: "A great true-life story...gets surface treatment and the identities of its heroes is fictionalized, making it difficult to fully invest in their characters. Deliberately old-fashioned, the movie has its moments, and the charisma of its formidable cast carries it a long way."

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