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Good German , 11 February 2008
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The Good German
on DVD (2006)
Starring: Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Beau Bridges
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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The Good Greman was a great book. A fascinating story set in what was left of Berlin at the end of the War. It had interesting characters and a fascinating plot and holds the reader gripped with its tension and pace.
The Good German is a terrible terrible movie that only shares the same title as the book. The plot is changed and characters are changed and so much story is left out. Clooney and Blanchett are mis cast and the dirctor has not got a clue as to how to direct a film with tension and has no idea how to tell a story. It is confused and appauling when it could have been so good.
Great opportunity lost and i begrudge the time i spent watching it. It was shot in black and white to give it that 'authentic' newsreel feel, but 'The Third Man' it aint and it only came across as another attempt to make more out of less. And it certainly was less.
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