Mission failed

Rating: 3/10 (31 January 2015)

The Monuments Men had a good cast assembled which gave this movie a lot of potential. George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, and John Goodman. Plus George Clooney was the director and a writer along with Grant Heslov based on a novel. Although the movie meant well, unfortunately the end result was a dour disappointment with a very slow pace which left many audiences unsatisfied. The Monuments Men certainly could have been a lot better.
Based on a true story from the novel by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter, The Monuments Men tells the tale of an unlikely World War II platoon made up of museum directors, curators, and art historians recruited by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to be sent to Nazi Germany on an impossible mission behind enemy lines to rescue art masterpieces stolen by Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners before 1000 years worth of art is destroyed.
There are many reasons as to what went wrong with this movie. The movie is very disappointing, slow and non-eventful. The Monuments Men tries to emulate such classics as The Great Escape, The Dirty Dozen, or Kelly's Heroes, but falls way short of reaching that potential. This is certainly going to be a black mark against George Clooney as an actor and director. Consider this mission a failure.
3/10.