The Statement

A well-made movie that has one problem that you have to get over: that it’s so terribly dragged out. However the screenplay failed to milk much from attractive subject matter and overall the movie would have benefited from being cut shorter than its rather over-the-top two-hour running time. Caine and the other actors give us just their standard, rather than any unforgettable performances and so it is a relatively decent, albeit needlessly mediocre movie which certainly could have turned out significantly better. (03.12.2005)

A slow, distant and perhaps long film, but on the other hand not uninteresting for even a moment. Michael Caine plays a very interesting war criminal character, who alternately arouses sympathy and disgust, I also liked the energetic Tilda Swinton unraveling the untangleable.___P.S. If you have the DVD, try switching to dubbing occasionally. Michael Caine was (for once) voiced by Radoslav Brzobohatý and it's not bad at all. (06.03.2016)