The Debt

The Debt

Rating 6 out of 10

Wow, I've been seeing alot of movies this month.  It's crazy especially since not long ago I was whining about all the crappy movies that were coming out and nothing I wanted to see in the near future.   Most of the movies I have seen lately have been pretty good.  As is this one.

This movie is most definitely a hard sell.  They did try as I saw several commercials for the previews the month before it came out.  Back in 1966 a trio of Mossad agents go on a mission in East Berlin to capture a very nasty Nazi war criminal.  They catch him and get him back to the hide out.  Problems arise in getting him/them out of the country.  That is where the problems really begin.  Some want to put a bullet in his head and flee.  Others demand he stand trial for what he did.  Decisions have to be made.

Flash forward to 1997 and the three are national heros for the mission even if the story is not completely true. They wrestle with what they have done.

The movie has some very good actors.  The always wonderful Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington (from Avatar), Tom Wilkinson and a new actress I think will be popular soon Jessica Chastain.  Not big names that will send people running for the theater but actors that know what they are doing.

This is a well made movie.  I would have rated it higher.  I just don't agree with some of the directions they went.  Not the choices I would have made.  This will make a good rental.