Pretty Good

A Major Disappointment

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

There are two previous negative reviews of this movie, but they suffer from the problem of reviewers whose first language is not English. It's hard to know where to begin in describing the basic silliness of this dog roll. Now, just how did this lantern -jawed hero manage to land in Marseilles during war time, and even if possible, where did he get his plane from, permission, visa, etc.? And are we to believe that this wooden hero/playboy was also fluent in French and German. And how did Frau von Gall manage to phone NYC during the German occupation with Germany at with the USA? And the scenes of French refugees on the move after the Germans occupied the Free Zone (Vichy) is sheer fantasy. This happened in 1940, not 1942.The contradictory behavior of Austria's foremost actor was truly startling and basically moronic. The ending with the hearts & flower music, tugging at the heart strings of the audience was nothing less than vomitive.Stuart swgreif@hotmail.com

This refers to the 180 min. cut of "Entrusted", aired by German TV (ARD). It is a kind of movie you find yourself shaking your head frequently. The persona of Maria von Gall, not-this-world's beauty, noble underground partisan and financer, survival-stylish mother of the cute genius, later going hysterical...mentioned before, but again: this is MTV clip level. Brandauer is Brandauer, maybe he happens to being asked to delivering a different meal sometime, which I would appreciate. Obviously SS-officers in vichy-France used to shave themselves in beautiful white chalkstone quarries, where they did interrogations and torture as well..you didn't know that? Now you can tell. Another funny one: Claire leaves cute Thomas dans la rue to take revenge in the open place they're poking at on the SS-officer who killed her parents, with the advice that he could cross the place afterwards. 'Blam' she does with the gun and almost instantaneously the place, crowded with SS-men and Jewish men and women up to the moment, is abandoned and brave little Thomas crosses it with the bicycle (reengadeeng). No time stretching chiffre, no nothing. Silly, really. It's not just this but several sorts of mistakes, plot holes, incomplete and artificial story aspects and characters. In German we know the expression - I try to translate - pulled about by the hair (An den Haaren herbeigezogen) which goes for the story in total. With the suspicion left, that these "niggles" were to be subordinated under "beautiful pictures, shot by a beautiful name" I am impressed by the subterranean quality of the story told.

Well, this is funny movie - some Nazists want Jewish money (about 70 millions marks), but only two or three people know the numbers of accounts - man, his daughter - and her little genius son. Man is killed, mother (in sexy red suit and armed with Mauser) rescue some Jews and children from Nazis office in France - and is killed, other people are killed, boy has flu... and pretty clever professor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) goes in his steps. Yes, this boy is so smart he know 20 draws in advance in chess - but he is surprised that the professor has gun... And that isn't enough - suddenly young man from America appears on the stage and believe or not - he is the real boy's father! This movie is mix of thriller, action, drama, smart-clever-men-movies, but in whole is only laughable.

Spoilers! Solid entertainment, fictional story set in WWII France. Young boy, who is a chess genius, has to remember the access codes for Jewish money deposited in swiss banks. The Nazis are after the codes and subsiquently after the young boy. 2 x 90 minutes. Beautiful photography, very good acting, but the end kills the try. In the entire movie people are on the phone, even to New York. Now the boy has finally made it to the bank in Geneva and tells the bank-codes - but why didn't he just pick up the phone and called the bank... His mother, friends didn't have to die, or there wouldn't have been a movie...