Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Aart van Gent The human behavior depicted in this movie I found very bad. For example, when Gregor Lämmle gets attracted by David Quatermain during interrogation, a German soldier tries to scare David. The soldier point his gun to David, but does not use any militaristic commandments or other intimidating stuff. He is silent and looks like he has to go to the toilet. Another example is when a lady wants to kill a German officer. The officer gives no reaction at all. The director probably told the German officer that he is not scared and doesn't believe a woman is capable to shoot. At least you would expect a very dry reaction, with at least one line of dialog. But the officer stays natural (and the bullet does not seem to hurt that much).There are many examples like the ones above. That's why the movie feels like a bad student film.The dialog was written badly for a couple of times. The music did distracted me a couple of times a lot from the story (sudden weird tones in a score did not match). But then again, I did not feel the suspense in most scenes either. The storyline of the 2-hour version I saw had some holes in it (what happened to Henri Lafont? Who is the man with the sniper rifle?) The story itself could have been promising (so, I did not turn the movie off).The boy was a good actor, so that's way I give the movie 3/10

gehle This refers to the 180 min. cut of "Entrusted", aired by German TV (ARD). It is a kind of movie you find yourself shaking your head frequently. The persona of Maria von Gall, not-this-world's beauty, noble underground partisan and financer, survival-stylish mother of the cute genius, later going hysterical...mentioned before, but again: this is MTV clip level. Brandauer is Brandauer, maybe he happens to being asked to delivering a different meal sometime, which I would appreciate. Obviously SS-officers in vichy-France used to shave themselves in beautiful white chalkstone quarries, where they did interrogations and torture as well..you didn't know that? Now you can tell. Another funny one: Claire leaves cute Thomas dans la rue to take revenge in the open place they're poking at on the SS-officer who killed her parents, with the advice that he could cross the place afterwards. 'Blam' she does with the gun and almost instantaneously the place, crowded with SS-men and Jewish men and women up to the moment, is abandoned and brave little Thomas crosses it with the bicycle (reengadeeng). No time stretching chiffre, no nothing. Silly, really. It's not just this but several sorts of mistakes, plot holes, incomplete and artificial story aspects and characters. In German we know the expression - I try to translate - pulled about by the hair (An den Haaren herbeigezogen) which goes for the story in total. With the suspicion left, that these "niggles" were to be subordinated under "beautiful pictures, shot by a beautiful name" I am impressed by the subterranean quality of the story told.

Jan Lipsansky Well, this is funny movie - some Nazists want Jewish money (about 70 millions marks), but only two or three people know the numbers of accounts - man, his daughter - and her little genius son. Man is killed, mother (in sexy red suit and armed with Mauser) rescue some Jews and children from Nazis office in France - and is killed, other people are killed, boy has flu... and pretty clever professor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) goes in his steps. Yes, this boy is so smart he know 20 draws in advance in chess - but he is surprised that the professor has gun... And that isn't enough - suddenly young man from America appears on the stage and believe or not - he is the real boy's father! This movie is mix of thriller, action, drama, smart-clever-men-movies, but in whole is only laughable.

Lehndorff Spoilers! Solid entertainment, fictional story set in WWII France. Young boy, who is a chess genius, has to remember the access codes for Jewish money deposited in swiss banks. The Nazis are after the codes and subsiquently after the young boy. 2 x 90 minutes. Beautiful photography, very good acting, but the end kills the try. In the entire movie people are on the phone, even to New York. Now the boy has finally made it to the bank in Geneva and tells the bank-codes - but why didn't he just pick up the phone and called the bank... His mother, friends didn't have to die, or there wouldn't have been a movie...