Please don't spend money on this.

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

The human behavior depicted in this movie I found very bad. For example, when Gregor Lämmle gets attracted by David Quatermain during interrogation, a German soldier tries to scare David. The soldier point his gun to David, but does not use any militaristic commandments or other intimidating stuff. He is silent and looks like he has to go to the toilet. Another example is when a lady wants to kill a German officer. The officer gives no reaction at all. The director probably told the German officer that he is not scared and doesn't believe a woman is capable to shoot. At least you would expect a very dry reaction, with at least one line of dialog. But the officer stays natural (and the bullet does not seem to hurt that much).There are many examples like the ones above. That's why the movie feels like a bad student film.The dialog was written badly for a couple of times. The music did distracted me a couple of times a lot from the story (sudden weird tones in a score did not match). But then again, I did not feel the suspense in most scenes either. The storyline of the 2-hour version I saw had some holes in it (what happened to Henri Lafont? Who is the man with the sniper rifle?) The story itself could have been promising (so, I did not turn the movie off).The boy was a good actor, so that's way I give the movie 3/10

There are two previous negative reviews of this movie, but they suffer from the problem of reviewers whose first language is not English. It's hard to know where to begin in describing the basic silliness of this dog roll. Now, just how did this lantern -jawed hero manage to land in Marseilles during war time, and even if possible, where did he get his plane from, permission, visa, etc.? And are we to believe that this wooden hero/playboy was also fluent in French and German. And how did Frau von Gall manage to phone NYC during the German occupation with Germany at with the USA? And the scenes of French refugees on the move after the Germans occupied the Free Zone (Vichy) is sheer fantasy. This happened in 1940, not 1942.The contradictory behavior of Austria's foremost actor was truly startling and basically moronic. The ending with the hearts & flower music, tugging at the heart strings of the audience was nothing less than vomitive.Stuart swgreif@hotmail.com

Well, this is funny movie - some Nazists want Jewish money (about 70 millions marks), but only two or three people know the numbers of accounts - man, his daughter - and her little genius son. Man is killed, mother (in sexy red suit and armed with Mauser) rescue some Jews and children from Nazis office in France - and is killed, other people are killed, boy has flu... and pretty clever professor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) goes in his steps. Yes, this boy is so smart he know 20 draws in advance in chess - but he is surprised that the professor has gun... And that isn't enough - suddenly young man from America appears on the stage and believe or not - he is the real boy's father! This movie is mix of thriller, action, drama, smart-clever-men-movies, but in whole is only laughable.

Spoilers! Solid entertainment, fictional story set in WWII France. Young boy, who is a chess genius, has to remember the access codes for Jewish money deposited in swiss banks. The Nazis are after the codes and subsiquently after the young boy. 2 x 90 minutes. Beautiful photography, very good acting, but the end kills the try. In the entire movie people are on the phone, even to New York. Now the boy has finally made it to the bank in Geneva and tells the bank-codes - but why didn't he just pick up the phone and called the bank... His mother, friends didn't have to die, or there wouldn't have been a movie...