Good story, bad script

Rating: 3/10 (18 April 2015)

This movie could've been really very good if it were written by an adult. It's the same two dimensional characterization used to portray those on board "Titanic" - the movie, where a film maker thinks the story is strong enough to carry the whole project freeing them to write a melodrama.
I am familiar with the work of Gustav Klimt, read the book 'Woman in Gold' and hoped, maybe too much, to see more of what I'd read than what has become a vehicle for the great Helen Mirren. I LOVE Helen Mirren. I know how hard she works to get inside a character but she didn't get inside this one. Also, the story just doesn't provide for a major character roll. There are just too many major characters in this oh so rife with Reich period in history. The result is too much fill - not good or believable dialog and a few good shots of Ryan Reynolds' abs (not really, he never shows his abs - which was surprising). I think Ryan Reynolds did a surprisingly good job and while also lacking the lines and direction that Mirren suffered, placed first in believability.