Badly Misplaced Humor

Rating: 5/10 (31 May 2014)

First off, these are the types of movies I love, stories about the unusual events that happened in World War II, especially if they are based on true events. This could have been a great movie about a group of men and one woman who did the extraordinary is saving countess works of art, public and private from ending up in the Fuerher Museum or worse yet being destroyed. This subject matter is serious stuff and is of tremendous interest to those who know art and culture and have an appreciation of it. For some reason, George Clooney decided this should be a quasi-comedy which is dangerous turf when dealing with Nazi themed subject matter, even in the best of hands. Clearly Mr. Clooney might want to stick to acting. Others have already stated the flaws in this movie and I reluctantly have to agree with them. My wife and son felt the same. This was an eagerly awaited movie that proved to be a big disappointment