Biggest Disappointment of the year!!!!

Rating: 2/10 (22 November 2014)

The Monuments Men 2/10- Everything about this movie makes you think that it will be a hit. It has got George Clooney as the director and star, Matt Damon as the other lead, Bill Murray, Jean Dujardin, Cate Blanchett, I mean that cast alone screams this movie will be awesome. Plus, the source material that this movie is based off of is very interesting and definitely deserves to be told. What could go wrong? Everything. Everything went wrong. I do not know how all of these great factors leads to such a terrible movie. The Monuments Men is one of those movies that after twenty minutes of watching, you feel like you have been there for an hour.
I will begin with the score. A score is the entire music made for a particular movie. In almost all of the movies I have seen, the music only enhances the viewing experience and adds something special to each individual scene. Then there are these handful of movies I have seen where the music makes each scene worse, the monuments men is unfortunately one of those few. During this movie, there will be this poorly written inspirational speech or emotional scene and someone during this the music will start playing.Even if this speech was the greatest movie speech ever written, the music made for the Monuments Men would have ruined it and would have made you hate speech. To be honest, I have never disliked any music for a particular movie more than this one.
Now for the plot. The Monuments Men has a particular interesting plot at first because it cultivates a patriotic World War II theme whilst still maintaining an intellectual background with the artists and sculptors being on the front line. The Trailer makes it look very clear cut, they all go in together and find the art throughout Europe and bring it back to its rightful owners. Everyone that I know was excited for this film just because of the trailer, but sadly that's the only good thing about this movie, the trailer. We saw the only good parts of the plot in the trailer. When the actually movie begins, the audience suddenly realizes right away that is very poorly written movie and the rest of the movie they hope that at least is will get a little better. Nope, somehow it gets progressively worse throughout the entire movie. I do not want to give away any particular details about The Monuments Men if for some reason you want to see this movie after reading this review.
Last and definitely least the acting. How can a cast that has one more than five Oscars not deliver an outstanding performance? I have no clue. What did they do differently this time? Why were they so terrible in this film? It is honestly a mystery, but the main suspect is George Clooney who did not show any solid directing skills from this work. I am not going to point out any particular person for bad acting in this film because all of them were just as bad as the next and for some of them it was the worst performances of their career.
To sum it all up, bad music, bad plot, and bad acting. This is the first movie that I strongly recommend you do not even see when it comes out on DVD.
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