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Such a frustrating disappointment

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

These days, any time you see a film with the phrase "based on a true story" you know it's Hollywood code for B.S. story, caricatures not characters and historical inaccuracies and/or outright lies. The mistake the film (and clooney) makes, is to try and make a jolly jape, comedy out of what should have been quite a serious subject. Which you could have had some laughs with. Yet another film where the true story would have been so much more interesting and compelling than stereotypes, infantile humour and glibnessI suspect in the film makers egos, they were making a classic war film like 'A Bridge to Far' or 'The Dirty Dozen' instead we get the 'Soppy Seven' good actors in search of a script. Lazy story telling 6/10

I was dragged kicking and scream to watch this by my girlfriend. I used to like WW2 films, "Cross of Iron" and "A bridge too Far" were firm favourites growing up.But modern WW2 movies seem dedicated on making really bad versions of "The Magnificent Seven". From "Saving Private Ryan" to "Fury" to "Red Tails" it all boils down to our band of heroes having to defend some ridiculous objective against a horde of incompetent, suicidal Nazis.Monument Men is not like that. It tells the story of Allied special agents sent to recover, protect and return works of art.The characters are likable and interesting, and very human. There have been at least a few flourishes of artistic licence (for instance who would go to the effort to design a land mine that explodes when you step off it?)I don't know the true story but this seems believable enough to me and I was gripped right up to the very end.It goes without saying the affects and production are very high quality. Against my initial feeling I would highly recommend this.

I was very surprised by the low ratings (6.1 at the time of writing this review). Also the user reviews were mostly negative or neutral at best. Is it because most viewers were expecting yet another action movie, something similar to the mindless Inglourious Basterds? The Basterds were rated 8.3, yet they contained hardly any thought other than "kill those bastards". The Monuments Men are very different. The movie goes much deeper. It is much more authentic. It is much more fun to watch. If your are really into action movies, you may want to skip The Monuments Men. For this movie was not made to brainwash you with visual effects and senseless violence. It was made to give you a food for thought, and a fresh perspective.

The Monument Men Movie ReviewCharacters (matt Damon) James Granger (george clooney) Frank Stokes (Cate blanchett) Claire Simone (Justus Von Dohnanyi) General StahlPersonal notes Frank Stalks wants to halt all bombing of places that have art in them until they can rescue it to save the art.. He convinces the U.S president to send a group of studied artist to Paris and Germany on a Mission to protect and rescue stolen art that contains the historic past of a group of people that are almost as lost as the art. Stahl continues hiding the artwork and has discovered that his secretary's brother works for the resistance and is killed and she is threatened with jail or being turned into the SS if she is not. Claire is her name. She returns to the hall and realizes that the art is gone. It becomes an intense hide and seek between the two. The race to get ahead of Germany….. Is on Damon and Claire seem to have something going on…. Please don't have an affair in the middle of the war.!!!Plot As World War Two comes to a close Frank Stokes persuades the American president to let a group of trained artist become soldiers and go into the heart of Italy,Paris and Germany in search of Art that will potentially be destroyed forever if Hitler falls into the fate of anyone's hands, or if Germany is defeated. Many of the pieces of art have already been lost but a German coordinator gives away the key to the art away to the allies and they begin a hunt to track down the lost art in particular a few certain pieces that are close to each man's heart. As the movie continues lessons of triumph and sacrifice prevail over the despair of war and love and hope take home the prize.Acting The humor makes it enjoyable to watch Emotions are obvious Tons of music to add tension Good realistic costuming and makeup The actors dumped in realistic feeling to make the movie tense and fun to watch.Message; This movie is full of hope and leaves you feeling triumphant, prideful and courageous. It proves how people have to hold on to whatever you have left and treasure your history because when that is taken from you, you have no identity left and can be lost and left behind, forgotten in history.Critic; In the beginning of the movie, it was unclear who was who and what was going on, but this ended up being of benefit to the plot because it added suspense and tension.