Last night I caught this on DVD. It's set in the 1940's in Berlin, just after the Allied victory over the Nazis, and is basically about a couple of different countries looking for one man - Emile Brandt (aka the Good German), who was involved in the Nazi rocket program. The movie is in black and white, and was made to look like it was filmed back in the 40's. Although with a lot of swearing and sexual content they wouldn't have shown back then.
Unfortunately, like many movies that were made in the olden days (even though this was filmed in 2006), it's a little bit boring. Maybe it was just that I was tired, but it didn't really sustain my interest the whole way through.
The cast was OK. George Clooney is a guy I've liked ever since his Seth Gecko days, and he was pretty good in this. Tobey Maguire on the other hand . . . I don't really get what the appeal is. My friend Mirjana thinks he's great, but he just seems like a weird little fella to me. And not even weird in a good (eg Christopher Walken) way . . . bad weird. Anyway thankfully he dies pretty early on in this so you're not subjected to a whole movie of him. Cate Blanchett is in it too, and does a very servicable German accent.
The movie does look very authentic, and give you an answer to the question "I wonder what it would be like if contemporary actors jumped in a time machine and were transported to Hollywood of the mid twentieth century?", but other than that, I can't really recommend it.
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