Okay, it’s time for another review. Yeah it’s been a rather while since my last post. Getting a new job on the other part of Jakarta, watching older movies to complete up IMDb listing, and some private matters sure do take most of my time. But now, let’s talk about “The Monuments Men”. This review is also published on IMDb.
The Monuments Men tell us the story of World War II Allied side constructing a team of artists scholars, and scientists, mostly American, who have been drafted into the military. Their job is to secure the pieces of works of art of occupied European countries and to find the missing pieces.
The concept is good, focusing on one of the other sides of the war, in this case the reality of German Nazis seizing works of art from the war zones. But the story is quite ordinary, a pretty straightforward of team assembly, team goes to the field, team does what their task is. It doesn’t really contain a twist or something to keep audiences on their seat. For me personally, the movie is not recommendable to go see in the cinema.
Steady story build-up with a rather slow pace doesn’t really maximize the potential of the cast of actors and actresses. And for a movie tagged as Action on IMDb, it doesn’t have enough action in it. Yet the movie has a good main cast of great, yet somewhat aging LOL, actors and actresses.
George Clooney, Matt Damon and John Goodman is being busy with back to back filming after “Gravity”, “Behind The Candelabra” and “Inside Llewyn Davis”. Though it is kinda strange to see Bill Murray in a significant role after quite a long time, especially as a soldier. Cate Blanchett is just plain simple in this movie.
Well, at least one good thing of the movie is we get to see Omaha beach of Normandy’s condition after the hell of D-Day landing in “Saving Private Ryan”. The film has many spots for jokes. It has nice insertions of mild verbal jokes. It even fill in funny moments of clumsy soldiers in a firefight with a teenage sniper. And Matt Damon doing the dud landmine is just awkwardly stupid after 3 movies of Bourne Trilogy, LOL.
The film’s musics reminiscent of classic old school 1970s-ish war movies. This can be somewhat good and familiar to the older generations, yet it is strange and a bit weird for us the generations of the millennial birth.
For me, it’s a 5 out 10 movie score.
This Too Will Pass 