When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Juan Pujol garcia, s Spaniard, aka Garbo, was a double agent, feeding information to Nazi handlers, who thought he was their agent based in England. He gave the Nazis, who thought he was their spy, information the British gave him to relay and thus was instrumental in misleading the Nazis so they thought the D-Day invasion was to take place in Pas de Calais rather than on the Normandy coast. The true story was interesting, told through interviews, snippets of movies and what appeared to be newsreel footage but the film jumped all over the place, back-and-forth in time and place, and too-loud music drowned out some parts. Fortunately subtitles were available and readable

Having learned about Juan Pujol Garcia quite some time ago, I was fascinated to find out that somebody had made a movie about him. Granted, this was not what I would expect (somebody else can surely make a true dramatic version of his incredible story), but I found this to be very entertaining. I admit I like quirky styles, so the offbeat interviewers identities hidden until halfway through the film, the odd music selections (which grew more likable as the movie progressed) and the numerous film clips interspersed with the rest of the story made for just my flavor. The humor is palpable and the movie is memorable on many levels. It would be great if more people knew of the incredible heroics of the secretive man from Catalan and his brave deeds.

This story is one of the more memorable footnotes to World War II - the tale of Joan Pujol Garcia, a man who ends up being a double-agent during a pivotal moment in history. And his appearance on the world stage couldn't be more important: his counterintelligence was designed to undermine the D-Day invasion.It's obviously not a big-budget documentary, but uses a variety of talkies and newsreel footage to round out the story. The cast of interviewees is relatively small; and the inclusion of inappropriate (or confusing) sound effects and garbled film editing makes for a less than compelling story. The story itself was the most memorable segment in Ben Macintre's Operation Zigzag, and the film's running length of 88 minutes suggests that the filmmaker had run out of material. If only he'd read Macintire's book first.

Garbo: The Spy hit me like Fire in the Heartland. Again, here's a topic that I feel I am familiar with. i have seen movies about World War II, read books about the Invasion of Normandy. So, why have I never heard about this guy? Why don't I know how critical he apparently was to the whole Allied effort? If you've seen Alias or the Bournes, you know that a good spy has handlers. Garbo is the codename he received from his British handlers, because he took on various roles so well. In reality, he grew up in the Catalan region of Spain, the child of well-to-do parents, in the days before Franco. He wants to get involved. And, I will tell you we don't get to know much about his actual motivations or personality. The guy's a ghost, really. But, we get to find out what he did, offering his services to the Third Reich and to the Allies. Garbo set up an elaborate ruse that may have turned the tide of the war. He must have had iron clad insides to pull off some of these capers. I don't want to give too much away, but it's just an incredible story. And, to get it on the screen, since we don't have anything but talking heads and documents to illustrate the story, Director Edmon Roach intersperses scenes from spy films and movies about World War II that mirror real life events. It's a beautiful device and a remarkable piece of storytelling. I give Garbo: The Spy an 9 out of 10.