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by d_fienberg  - Top 500, Jan 17 '03
Pros: Provocative and interesting. Noah Taylor's performance
Cons: Just too difficult a subject to do right. John Cusack's performance.
If you're a screenwriter, you have to establish your main character with one or two sentences of description, sentences that tell a director, producer, or actor how to play a person about whom they know nothing.
With Taxi Driver, Paul...
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by artbyjude - Top 500, Aug 24 '03
Pros: Taylor and Cusack, the cinematography, and the interesting script.
Cons: Not enough art, fails to pack the punch.
One of the more ambitious films of the year, this movie will grab you by the neck and shake you a l ...
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by minorthreat78 , Jul 30 '03
Pros: Clever, somewhat edgy premise
Cons: Story gets lost in endless philosophizing
I suppose it had to be inevitable. One can only demonize one person so long before he becomes an ic ...
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by houstoncritic , Mar 04 '03
Pros: Ambitious piece of historical fiction.
Cons: A bit too preachy. A bit too much Cusack.
Walter Chaw, online colleague and fellow Epinioneer (mangiotto), once accused me—while commenting on my outburst of indignation in a review of a particularly unsettling (read: disgusting and mortifying) film—of committing an act of “literate...
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by mark_dujsik , Dec 26 '02
Pros: Taylor and Cusack; intelligent, dialogue-driven script
Cons: Women's roles are slight
They are the flip sides of a coin, Max Rothman (John Cusack) and Adolf Hitler (Noah Taylor). Both are German born and raised. Both fought in the Great War. Both are angered by the way the German government has appeased the world by agreeing the...
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by frwhiskey , Feb 02 '03
Pros: Gloomy atmosphere, gritty streets, Hitler as gaunt, repellant, angry man; decadent art scene
Cons: Fiction only; Hitler's true day-to-day youth remains unrevealed; Anti-communist element neglected
This fictionalized version of Hitler's post-WWI drifter's life in Munich leaves a lot to be desired in showing who Hitler really was. What was his shiftless life really like in those "lost years" between the death of his mother, when he left Linz and...
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by waynio , Jan 12 '03
Pros: Thought-provoking script; Noah Taylor; exceptional set and art design
Cons: Max's blind spot stretches credulity; dialogue sometimes unintelligible; accent free-for-all
A dank old factory in post-WWI Munich is being used as a gallery by art dealer Max Rothman (John Cusack), a former artist who lost his painting arm in the war. Despite rampant postwar squalor and the lack of an arm, Max has a cozy life: his lovely,...
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by Franc28 , Dec 12 '03
Pros: Wonderful acting, incredible ideological depth, Hitler seen realistically
Cons: Cinematography is not very interesting, ending shows lack of courage
The movie follows the life of one Max Rothman, former Jewish artist who lost an arm in WW1, now art dealer who takes his job to heart. Wars and tribulations have cast realism in art aside forever - the tide has turned towards modernism, and Rothman ...
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by p00kiebear , Dec 31 '02
Pros: A haunting story based on actual events which begs the question "What if?"
Cons: Seems slow moving at times, heavy on dialogue and light on action
There is one phrase, one situation that can haunt an individual perpetually and that is the question "What If?." What if Adolf Hitler was a name known only for art instead of for atrocities of war. How would the world be different if his ideas were...
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