Seems Like a Very Bad Made for TV Movie

Rating: 4/10 (15 May 2014)

The main theme that seems to run through this film is a love for cigarettes, not historic accuracy. It certainly wasn't a love of art. Because as an art form itself, the film was bad, which is more amazing due to the large stellar cast.
The main problems with Mon. Men are a lousy script, filled with pointless time wasting padding and an attempt to recover art all over Europe in 90 minutes or so.
It begins in 1943 when Clooney is trying to convince the Roosevelt to form a unit to rescue looted art. He's using the bombing of Monte Cassino in Italy as an example of what could happen to object'art all over Europe. The problem here is, Monte Cassino wasn't bombed until 1944.
Then it takes an entire year for his unit to be formed and six months later in July 1944 they land in Normandy to being their 10 month quest, which is filled mainly with boring small talk and careless excursions around enemy territory as if the war was over.
Their final big haul of art comes on the heels of the Russians arriving. They have to leave immediately, which in fact takes 10 minutes of disbelief.
Seeing this film you get the feeling Clooney feels he can sell anything to the public.