Monument Men-Is this Film Really A Work of Art? ***

Rating: 8/10 (22 October 2014)

The film is good in the sense that we are reminded that we fought World War 11 for the maintenance of our cultural values in society.
George Clooney gave a so-so performance. He spoke as if he were just mouthing his words plainly. It is only when he takes a captured Nazi criminal to task regarding the latter's anti-Semitic views that he is somewhat more powerful.
In her own way, Cate Blanchett steals the film as a French woman working at the Germany ministry during France's occupation knowing full well what is going on with Nazi Germany looting art treasures for themselves. While it appears that she is a collaborator, she is supplying information to her brother, who is killed, while he is working for the resistance.
Clooney, Bill Murray and John Goodman were just too old to be cast in their respective parts.