The Monuments Men
The film tells about a platoon established reluctantly in World War II by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt with a secretly penetrating task to Germany to retrieve artworks from Nazi soldiers and return them back to true owner. This is a almost impossible task when this art treasure deep inside enemy defenses and the Nazi is ordered to destroy everything when the third Reich collapsed. How can these reluctantly agents - including directors, sculptors, and historians accustoming with Michelangelo artworks more than holding a gun - perform the task successfully?
2 December 1960, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
April 12, 1991 in Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
1968, Berlin, Germany
23 August 1961, Paris, Île-de-France, France
15 May 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 August 1971, Bath, Somerset, England, UK
16 August 1945, Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 September 1945, Cullercoats, Northumberland, England, UK
14 October 1980, Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France
June 21, 2016
It has its heart in the right place and Clooney does a technically proficient job, but there's no denying that it is a significant disappointment.
June 18, 2016
If you've ever doubted how thoroughly a poor score can wreck an otherwise perfectly acceptable motion picture, get thee to 'Monuments Men.'
June 16, 2016
'Monuments Men' is the vapidly-told story of the men who set out to thwart ol' Schicklgruber's (Hitler's father's real name) dastardly, top-to-bottom European art-ransack.
March 10, 2017
This latest project from the Lake Como Vanity Project Yacht is all winky Ocean's 11 crap and way too many monologues from Sir George, whose film career has been coasting on alleged charm since Return of the Killer Tomatoes.
February 07, 2014
If The Monuments Men never overcomes its unwieldy structure and unevenness of tone, the film still manages to make a profound, even subtle point: that Hitler's darkest impulses and annihilating reach extended from human beings to history itself.
May 08, 2017
Unfortunately, it doesn't take much for charming camaraderie to cross over into uncritical cronyism. Clooney could have used someone telling him to do a few more rewrites. If he's not careful he'll turn into a classier version of Adam Sandler.
February 07, 2014
This is a sturdy, old-school, big-scale Greatest Generation war movie. It's great escapism.
February 09, 2014
The movie does a good job of illustrating why protecting art from the Nazi scourge was important but it's far less effective fleshing out the personalities of the people who did the protecting.
July 14, 2016
The movie's biggest sin is a complete and utter lack of dramatic tension.
February 07, 2014
A frustratingly flat film that drifts from moment to moment with a curious lack of urgency and an overbearing sense of self-importance.
February 07, 2014
Think of them as Inglorious Art Historians. Only this PG-13 entertainment has little of the edge, however complicated, of Quentin Tarantino's 2009 Holocaust revenge flick.
September 22, 2014
We may have gained something in humor by not taking the saviors in the art-rescue story very seriously, but we've lost just about all of the romantic pleasures of heroism.
