Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

castala As it happened many times in film history, a film made by great artists, written from a book based on historical events, is ending in a tasteless pudding. Steven Soderbergh made many good films, often a tribute to many genres like "film noir", science fiction, cops and robbers, etc. We're having a nice cast in this film, and none of them should be proud of the result. It's tough not liking Clooney and Blanchett. and here, they are a strange couple. Probably because their relation in the story started before the Second World War, and we don't know much of it. It's not helping to try to understand where their love affair is fitting in all this complex historical scheme. Here, I guess the problem is the screenplay, based on Joseph Kanon's novel which counts more than 500 pages. It's complicated to make a story in a film lasting 105 minutes. The music is nice, the cinematography all in black and white is also very beautiful. But when the film is ending, you just try to figure out what went wrong. Apart the screenplay, we should also ask why choosing Blanchett to play this character. Her German husband seems too young for her, her accent is not credible. And her eyes are covered with dark lenses, which are giving the actress a strange look, like if she's not feeling well. Maybe she did. It's not completely bad, but after watching it, it's easy to understand why it was a commercial flop, probably explaining why Clooney and Soderbergh had to make "Ocean's 13".

Armand more than a thriller, a form of homage to a lost age of cinema. the deep traces of 1940 years, the shadow of Casablanca, the acting in precise circles.a movie from a lost world who use inspired cast but without significant effect. error of script. or only error of director expectations. so, not a bad movie. but far to be remarkable. a film who has basic virtue to remember another films atmosphere but who can not give nothing real new. the slow story, the forced tension, the desire to be a realistic film noir are interesting ambitions but the desire to do everything at high level is the fundamental sin. a film for the fans of actors. and for the fans of film noir references. in rest, a slice of war with too many ambitions.

tieman64 Designed to resemble film noirs from the 1940s, "The Good German" is a somewhat interesting experiment by director Steven Soderbergh. Loosely divided into 3 sections, each with its own narrator, the film stars Cate Blanchett as a German Jew who's attempting to protect her husband from both American and Russian forces. Set in 1945, when the Soviet Union and the United States were busy carving up a recently surrendered Germany, the film watches as Blanchett uses her feminine wiles to strike up various deals with American and Russian officials. Why? As her husband is a renowned rocket scientist, both sides want him for their rocket programs, programs which will form the bedrock of Cold War posturing. And if they cant have him? Well, then he's better off dead. Blanchett does her best to prevent this.With her high cheekbones and porcelain skin, Blanchett's cast because of her resemblance to Hollywood sirens of old. Alongside her is actor George Clooney, who's rocking a Cary Grant face and a bottle full of smug. "Cassablanca", "The Third Man", "A Foreign Affair", "Germany Year Zero" and various old noirs (and neorealist films) are Soderbergh's chief influences. Much of his film's first act consists of heavy-handed stylistic attempts to evoke films of the era. These include lots of dutch angles, wipes, canted shots, noir lighting, old Hollywood aspect ratios, and "traditional" blocking/mise-en-scene. While this initially lends the film an overly busy, overly desperate tone, things eventually settle down somewhat to become something a bit more gentle and introspective. For fans of old noirs, the film ably evokes a certain nostalgia. But that's all it does. It's a rushed, slight film, which is frustrating considering the potentially heavy subject matter at hand.7.9/10 – Better to ditch the homages and take things a bit more seriously. Worth one viewing.

kluseba When I heard about a modern past-war movie that would settle in destroyed and desperate Germany that was turned in intense black and white images and would include actors like George Clooney, I was really looking forward to this movie. Well, I guess I expected a little bit too much.The story has surely some interesting points and is also quite realistic, but somehow very difficult to follow. The actors mostly play without any emotions, especially George Clooney is doing a horribly weak job and the cold-hearted and not very credible Cate Blanchett isn't much better. Only Tobey Maguire as a hectic, emotional and unexperienced military guy who falls in love with a mysterious German "femme fatale" does a convincing job.Another minor detail that personally annoyed me is the fact that most of the actors that are trying to speak German are doing a horrible job, especially Cate Blanchett is not very easy to understand. As a native speaker I know that German is a very difficult language, but this film wants desperately be as atmospheric, precise and realistic as possible, so the actors should have had the help of some good German teachers for the few dialogues they do in German. The Gemran dialogues seem because of this lack of professionalism almost inaudible and silly.From an aesthetic point of view, the movie has a great atmosphere because it is turned in black and white what fits to the desperate and dark situation after the war and some camera shootings are also well done and directed. But this is sadly not enough to make this slow-paced and emotionless movie entertaining enough, even for a German or someone who is interested in history like me.To keep it short, the images and the atmosphere of the movie are well done, but the story and the acting could have been way better.