Saving Picasso (and Rembrandt and Michelangelo) barely

Rating: Null/10 (7 February 2014)

THE MONUMENTS MEN (2014) ** George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Hugh Bonneville, Bob Balaban, Dimitri Leonidas. Rather dull and boring based on true events account of a ragtag platoon organized in WWII to find and return art masterpieces absconded by the Nazis led by erstwhile Clooney (who directed flatly and co-wrote the blah screenplay with partner in crie Grant Heslov based on books by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter). Criminally overlooking its blue-chip cast of its assets and letting them flounder to do pretty much nothing is the least of this bloodless historical drama with barely a pulse of action or interest. Truly disappointing.