Al filo de la mentira
Director:
John MaddenCámara:
Ben DavisMúsica:
Thomas NewmanReparto:
Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciarán Hinds, Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, Sam Worthington, Jesper Christensen, Romi Aboulafia, Cassandra Church (más)Streaming (3)
Sinopsis(1)
La historia empieza en 1997 cuando dos ex agentes del Mossad, Rachel (Helen Mirren) y Stefan (Tom Wilkinson) se quedan atónitos al enterarse de algo totalmente inesperado acerca de su antiguo compañero David (Ciarán Hinds). Los tres son considerados auténticos héroes en su país debido a una misión realizada hace años. En 1966, el trío (encarnado por Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas y Sam Worthington, respectivamente) persiguió y localizó a Vogel (Jesper Christensen), un criminal de guerra nazi en Berlín Este. Arriesgaron sus vidas y pagaron un alto precio por cumplir la misión, pero ¿lo consiguieron? El suspense crece según pasamos de un periodo a otro mientras la acción aumenta entre revelaciones cada vez más sorprendentes. (Universal Pictures España)
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Muy decente. Como un drama psicológico, así como una película de suspense. Pero sería mejor presionar un poco más y concentrarse más en un lado o en el otro. De esa forma, la película ocuparía un puesto más destacado en la cinematografía, por ejemplo, al lado de la dramática Munich o del suspenso Valkiria, porque en comparación con estas dos se cubrirá de polvo más fácilmente. Madden intenta cautivar a toda costa al espectador estadounidense y al mismo tiempo llenar de ideas al europeo, y le falta muy poco para dar en el blanco. Ignore el final, es literalmente dicho inapropiado y también pone en duda mi calificación de cuatro estrellas.
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Decent craftsmanship. Three Mossad agents vs. a Nazi war criminal. Madden build a convincing atmosphere on both sides of the time line and the actors don’t let him down. I enjoyed the younger members of the cast more, Jessica Chastain is a fox and on the same acting level as Helen Mirren, and even Sam Worthington rocks in Berlin (the scene with the plate). An excellent, nicely tight story with an unexpected, although rather strange ending. And Newman’s music is first rate.
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If this movie had been made a few years later, Jessica Chastain would have visited Prague sooner than she managed to with the movie Zookeeper’s Wife. I’m sure of that. You see you can feel Prague’s good old architecture from this film, which is also quite similar in Budapest. That’s why they use Budapest to shoot East Berlin every now and then. Nevertheless, I watched this movie mainly because of Jessica, who once again put in an incredible acting performance. It was a bit worse with the story that tries to look very interesting, spy-like and fateful, but it’s actually about one botched operation and the related lie. Nothing too big, nothing too complicated. The atmosphere is definitely good, but you sort of suspect all the time how things will eventually turn out and you have no reason to yearn for the ending from the very start, which is a pity for a movie like this.
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Half of the film is a fascinating trip to the heart of darkness and half is the mechanical sweeping of the dry mud of history under a neat genre carpet. There’s something to Matty's interpretation; perhaps I would just add that the chemistry of the Mossad and Vogel agents is extremely functional and has spark. Unfortunately, only as long as they're all young. In 1997, all that remains of all this magic is a persistent and schematic thriller with an inadvertently comic ending that blocks out the beautiful vibration of East Berlin. In any case, madden killed Vogel through the scenes of "gynecological" interrogation and abduction that were over the line, not only by his standards, but also by genre standards. I've never seen more luxurious old school... well, since Munich. [70%]
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The Debt had its sights set high with its theme and cast but the ambitious script tries to do too many things at once. The genre fusion of a love story with a psychological drama would be fine, but grafting an action thriller onto it was a mistake. I understand the producers' concern that the film should not be too intimate in its nature because adventurous elements simply sell, but at the same time they detract from its credibility and power. The most impressive aspect of The Debt is where, through dialogues, it comes to a confrontation between the characters, a clash of value hierarchies, and strength of will. Scandinavian Jesper Christensen portrays his war criminal as a terrifying monster, a cold-blooded psychopath who never loses his nerve for even a second and does not give up even in seemingly hopeless situations. He is demonic and brilliantly acted, just like Jessica Chastain in the role of the Mossad agent, who represents his antithesis. She is determined but also full of emotions and emotional confusion. Their chilling spark, whether in the office or in an illegal apartment after the doctor's capture, is the premature climax of the film. The film is not harmed by the shifting time frames, but rather by the aforementioned attempt to move the drama into a more appealing genre. The final quarter hour, when there is a final settling of accounts in Ukraine, kills the film's high potential because it pushes it to the brink of absurdity. It could have been a five-star affair, but after the final showdown between the old men, I can only give it three strong stars. Overall impression: 65%.
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