Clooney phones it in.

Rating: 6/10 (11 February 2014)

Here's a big cast on a big stage directed down enough to make it less then the sum of its parts. Perhaps Clooney tried to do too much as producer, writer, director and main star. What should be an action movie in the style of "The Dirty Dozen" is reduced to a stop, go and sputter with a number of "let's talk about it" scenes.
The question posed is art worth a life is dwarfed by magnitude of issues associated with World War II. Particularly troublesome was the ridiculous method of dealing with the holocaust reducing it to the Clooney character being able to get his bagel and coffee. George just jump across the table and break his other arm.
There is a good score and some good flag waving. The movie is very watchable but thinking back it should have been much better.