Dick Cheney 🤝 Herman Göring
Fat second-in-commands who escaped justice for war crimes.
This is better than the trailers make it out to be. I thought this was going to be 2025’s Reagan. But where that is Fox Nation propaganda, this is a Serious Movie about Serious Men doing Serious Things. And it’s Very Serious. They show actual, brutal, Holocaust footage.
It also knows exactly who its audience is. At 38 years old I achieved true Old Man status by spending my Friday night seeing it alone in a theater at 10pm (only two other people in the theater). It follows a trend we’ve been seeing all fall of movies being released at the wrong time. This should have been a Thanksgiving weekend release and every TV spot should just be hyping Russell Crowe’s transformation into Hitler’s heir. It would have been number one at the box office. Alternatively, this would have done gangbusters as a five-part miniseries. And we could actually see Rami Malek fuck the hot British journalist.
Crowe is having the time of his life. I wouldn’t say this movie is kind to Herman Göring or the other Nazis, but it doesn’t treat them as evil cartoons either (apart from Streicher, who was an evil cartoon). Crowe plays Herman Göring as a human being. A very smart, pompous, narcissistic, vain one, but a human being nonetheless. If this was a miniseries Crowe would win every award there is to win.
John Slattery is here just chewing through the scenery as only he can. Where does Roger Sterling end and he begin? Im not even sure he knows. Michael Shannon is his usual intense self, and Richard E. Grant imbues the literal proceedings with a sense of soul. As for Rami Malek, I truly don’t know what’s happening. His performance gets worse as the movie goes on, and his final moments are screen are laughably bad. His Oscar win grows is rapidly approaching Crash levels of buyers remorse.
All in all, better than you think it is, not as good as it could have been, but your dad is going to love it. If you have a good relationship with your dad, or have grandparents still living, do them a solid and take them to see this when you’re home for Thanksgiving.
Dick Cheney 🤝 Herman Göring
Fat second-in-commands who escaped justice for war crimes.
This is better than the trailers make it out to be. I thought this was going to be 2025’s Reagan. But where that is Fox Nation propaganda, this is a Serious Movie about Serious Men doing Serious Things. And it’s Very Serious. They show actual, brutal, Holocaust footage.
It also knows exactly who its audience is. At 38 years old I achieved true Old Man status by spending my Friday night seeing it alone in a theater at 10pm (only two other people in the theater). It follows a trend we’ve been seeing all fall of movies being released at the wrong time. This should have been a Thanksgiving weekend release and every TV spot should just be hyping Russell Crowe’s transformation into Hitler’s heir. It would have been number one at the box office. Alternatively, this would have done gangbusters as a five-part miniseries. And we could actually see Rami Malek fuck the hot British journalist.
Crowe is having the time of his life. I wouldn’t say this movie is kind to Herman Göring or the other Nazis, but it doesn’t treat them as evil cartoons either (apart from Streicher, who was an evil cartoon). Crowe plays Herman Göring as a human being. A very smart, pompous, narcissistic, vain one, but a human being nonetheless. If this was a miniseries Crowe would win every award there is to win.
John Slattery is here just chewing through the scenery as only he can. Where does Roger Sterling end and he begin? Im not even sure he knows. Michael Shannon is his usual intense self, and Richard E. Grant imbues the literal proceedings with a sense of soul. As for Rami Malek, I truly don’t know what’s happening. His performance gets worse as the movie goes on, and his final moments are screen are laughably bad. His Oscar win grows is rapidly approaching Crash levels of buyers remorse.
All in all, better than you think it is, not as good as it could have been, but your dad is going to love it. If you have a good relationship with your dad, or have grandparents still living, do them a solid and take them to see this when you’re home for Thanksgiving.
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