Nothing wrong with it

Rating: 9/10 (18 March 2014)

What surprised me with this is that this quite incredible story has never been made into a film before & this must be one of the last half way decent WW2 films to be made. Being both entertaining and at times amusing this was also educational. While stories have been told of the kind of theft we saw here, going on, the amount of it was staggering! If you start to think what would have happened if this rescue hadn't occurred then you would realise that most of it would have been destroyed by the fleeing Germans or ended up in the hands of the Russians. The scene (spoiler alert) where stacks of paintings are literally blow torched is hard to watch.
The film itself has the feel of 'war movies' of earlier years (including the music) but that's what was intended. I enjoyed it and thought the cast Clooney picked for his film was spot on. Someone suggested this would have made a good mini-series or TV series where the story could have been more in-depth and perhaps one day that might happen. But for a 2hour movie I didn't find anything wrong with it. I'm just glad the story was told...