So I wanted to like this. It have everything I normally like in a movie. Period drama. Based on a true story (that's always to catch for me). Interesting cast of characters.
Here's the rub. Yeah, the story was real, but it didn't really go anywhere. There was no drama and the "tension" of the Russians trying to get the art too was like a train 100 miles away going 3 miles an hour, but COMING RIGHT FOR US! No tension there.
It's like each character was 1/2 a character. Matt Damon's character went off and met with Cate Blanchett and there was a little tension then a romantic nod, which never developed and then nothing.
George Clooney's character seemed passionate at the beginning with the opening pitch to the president, but that didn't carry through, especially when they were trying to find the Madonna & child statue.
I just didn't get the sense that there was really a big drive there. It would have been better to take one or two of the characters and go deeper versus having all the different characters and going half-way with them. Bummer, because this could have been both interesting and education if it had been done right.
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