The Good German 4K 2006

What did Steven Sodenberg want to film? It remains a mystery to me to this day. The script of the movie, it feels, is simply mind-boggling in the most literal negative sense of the word. It is so cheesy and weak that after some three months, I no longer remember all the shimmers of the sluggish plot.

Let's start with the title. “The Good German.” The one who was called so in the movie, appears in it for about three minutes. If this is a plot-forming character, then this fact is clearly drawn out of thin air. It was necessary to go in the movie not just for fun, but with some purpose! Intrigue - this is a completely unattainable concept for this movie. Everything is banal and boring. Well, since the presence/absence of this character does not make us hot and cold, then maybe something can make others happy? Not at all. Cate Blanchett tried, really tried... But for an hour to play on the screen a kind of outwardly independent furniture, which itself hardly understands why it moves from place to place - it is not possible even to Oscar-bearer Blanchett, with all my love for her. Thanks to her for the accent, though. Clooney is trotting back and forth throughout the movie with a special persistence and is clearly preoccupied with something, and the actor's face remains strikingly stable when changing concerns and locations. The only one who was able to play exactly as it was required of him and whose character was something of himself is Toby Maguire. The thing is, his screen time is the first 20 minutes of the movie. And that was a rational amount of time to reveal his character - a pathetic scumbag. It was this time that the screenwriters were able to get through and not bring him to the state of oatmeal porridge. I was very happy with this role - so much so that for the first 20 minutes of the movie I even thought that the movie was not such a clinic as described by forum members, but quite tolerable. But later it turned out that the clinic was the real one - it was worth Toby's disappearance.

As a result, I was forced to watch the movie, though quickly boring, but beautiful style of the movie, excellent music by Thomas Newman and faith in cinematography.

Is the movie terrible? No, it's not terrible. It just has a very weak script and the only bright spots are the always professional Blanchett desperately trying to squeeze something out of her Lena Brandt, Toby Maguire's bright bastardized flashback character, Thomas Newman's sopra a la retro and that's probably it.