Well, I expected more...

Rating: 7/10 (7 September 2015)

The history of a woman trying to take back the artwork that are rightfully hers.... What a magnificent story to tell... Signing on brilliant Mirren, what a magnificent material to use... Mixing three parallel stories with no obvious start or end is just what brings the disaster and it all comes out as a giant blah... The holocaust always overwhelms people and their hearts but it shouldn't be used in vain. In this story the major idea was the history of the artwork not the history of how they got out of the country, that would make a movie on it's own. It is irrelevant and there is no immidiate connection to the story. For starters no connection to the person on the painting, no connection to the history of the painting connected to the history of Austria. Nothing to say about how this impacted Austria. It only talks about a lawyer who found a cute story to go on court and make a name out of it. Sidestory the painting itself. Almost half story Mrs Altman getting out of the country. Villains where the Austrians with the minister of Culture being depicted as Gargamel. Long story short This film is a teen movie cut and tailored to the sore eyes of the American people in need of a movie to see before going to bed. The 7 stars I gave is solely for the magnificent performancies of Helen Mirren and Daniel Bruhl. Also liked the fact they kept the original German language. Almost left the movie when the father talked in English (not needed at all). 7 is way more than it deserves but i give it in good will for the subject of art plundered by the Nazis it almost touched.