This film manages to render potentially fascinating true events into a story that is, in a word - boring.
The characters were one-dimensional and the acting, excepting that of Guillaume Canet and Daniel Brühl, ranged from forgettable to plain bad. Benno Fürmann was especially wooden, and Diane Krüger came across as a silly twit. The Scotsmen were portrayed as, well, "jolly good Scots" and not very bright. Suffice it to say that too many characters were annoying, and as a viewer, I wanted to slap them after a short while.
The film itself sunk into Hollywood depths of cheese, which shouldn't have happened in a Euro telling of this subject matter.
Very disappointing.
The characters were one-dimensional and the acting, excepting that of Guillaume Canet and Daniel Brühl, ranged from forgettable to plain bad. Benno Fürmann was especially wooden, and Diane Krüger came across as a silly twit. The Scotsmen were portrayed as, well, "jolly good Scots" and not very bright. Suffice it to say that too many characters were annoying, and as a viewer, I wanted to slap them after a short while.
The film itself sunk into Hollywood depths of cheese, which shouldn't have happened in a Euro telling of this subject matter.
Very disappointing.