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Title: The Monuments Men (2014)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| George Clooney | ... | Frank Stokes | |
| Matt Damon | ... | James Granger | |
| Bill Murray | ... | Richard Campbell | |
| Cate Blanchett | ... | Claire Simone | |
| John Goodman | ... | Walter Garfield | |
| Jean Dujardin | ... | Jean Claude Clermont | |
| Hugh Bonneville | ... | Donald Jeffries | |
| Bob Balaban | ... | Preston Savitz | |
| Dimitri Leonidas | ... | Sam Epstein | |
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Justus von Dohnányi | ... | Viktor Stahl |
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Holger Handtke | ... | Colonel Wegner |
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Michael Hofland | ... | Priest (Claude) |
| Zachary Baharov | ... | Commander Elya (as Zahary Baharov) | |
| Michael Brandner | ... | Dentist | |
| Sam Hazeldine | ... | Colonel Langton | |
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys - seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 - possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind's greatest achievements. Written by Sony Pictures Entertainment
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The movie deserves an A for effort but misses the mark dramatically. The question is: why? The story is evocative and the cast is excellent. Where the movie goes wrong is how it presents the story. The movie attempts to inject a whimsical element in story which is out of context. There was nothing whimsical about the plan to save priceless artwork. Also, the story moves at a slow pace and inspires little if any excitement or drama. The discoveries of the hidden artwork has little dramatic impact, nor do the interpersonal relationships between the characters which in the movie are shallow. Even the attempt at romance comes off as tepid and half-hearted, as well as implausible. The idea of a young, handsome, married American officer, alone in Paris, having dinner in the apartment of an attractive, intelligent, single French woman who made him dinner and not staying for at least another drink is a stretch. True, he is married and his faithfulness is commendable, but still .... The movie does have some strong dramatic moments, but in general the story is bland. Yet despite the movie's drawbacks, it still manages to tell a story about an historical event of great importance and significance, and for that reason alone is worth watching.