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Provocative
by Jayspencer (movies profile)
Sep 27, 2007
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2 people found this review helpful
While perhaps not the greatest, this movie focused on the change that came when the A-bomb and the rocket meant more than saving all those that Russians had in their grasp. And also no one seems to understand that while we gave away a lot of the farm at Posdam, there was little to be done about it, except save the tech heads the Germans had developed. Am I the only one who wonders what would have happened if Russia got the best German minds. More the Eastern Europe would have fallen.
And do any of these viewers realize truly how strong the Russian will was at that time, how depleted we were because we had to deal with Japan? It was a bad deal, but we were actually shipping people towards Japan at that time. Russia lost millions and how much more would the back seat generals want. Patton was killed in a car accident, get a clue. Remember the Berlin airlift? The crusade in Europe was out of steam.
The problem with the picture is that Clooney's relation with Kate is never realized as a memory. I would have liked a couple of flash backs to those happy *****s and memories they shared.
As it is, Kate did a good job of just being a survivor, a human who did anything to stay alive to tell a story of greater evil, only to have the chance to tell that story die, and she put it all on the line for that. She took a bullet and still her husband didn't get his message out.
I like the movie because she killed Toby, she whored, she took the lives of her own people, but trying for the greater good, she failed, but still survived. If only we had seen what made Clooney so enthralled that he went through what he did to help here, I would have been happier.
Otherwise, the popcorn was great, my date was super and we had a good talk when the movie was over. Who can really ask for anything more. |
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