Clooney and co. remain Clooney and co.

Rating: Null/10 (27 February 2014)

A small group of specialist US art experts go into Europe just as World War II is ending, to track down art which has been ransacked and hidden by the Nazis.
This handsomely mounted (based on a true) story goes efficiently enough through the motions of recounting the events, but is a curiously emotionless exercise. I was moderately entertained by the succession of sequences, but I never really cared. Perhaps this was due to the fact that the characters were poorly drawn. I watched George Cloony, Matt Damon, John Goodman, Cate Blanchett etc. pretending to be assorted individuals, but I never ever believed I was watching the characters they were playing. The one exception to this is Bob Balaban. There was something in his character, and in his relationship with Bill Murray's character, which had some depth, but this was never explored, so the film remained the poorer.
This film was no better than adequate and, with the amount of talent involved, it should have been so much more than that.