seriously damaged by unnecessary suspense

Rating: 5/10 (27 October 2012)

The run against the clock or simultaneous events is a cheap trick of thrills and any serious movie should refrain from it. Unfortunately, this movie does not. Did it happen exactly as told in the end - of course not! This is for the extra unnecessary expense - a lot of running and chasing and idiocy. Those who look through it are just embarrassed and the rating of this film on IMDb will drop considerably in the future. And this is really sad, because the movie starts out real good with a more honest account of historical events than ever produced in a movie of this size before. That honesty was the reason why I kept looking on the film and the action idiocy in the end almost made me turn off the damned thing. This could have been a great film if it had stayed true, even if just poetically with maybe invented stories that would have illuminated still further the problems involved. But that was not to be. Instead we got that ridiculous running against time action. Pity.