Misty Reviews

I really had no idea what to expect from this movie but since it had a pretty good reputation and since I have a weak spot for John Frankenheimer's work, I thought I might as well check it out. While watching this movie, I was thinking about what one of my uncles usually says about WWII movies. Basically, the guy really loves movies but, by now, he has seen enough movies dealing with this conflict and, to be honest, I do share his lack of enthusiasm towards this kind of movies and maybe that's why this flick didn't really blow me away. Still, even so, it turned out to be a really solid World War II thriller with some really nice action scenes. Indeed, one of the main focus of Frankenheimer was to be as realistic as possible so most of what happened seemed be doable and therefore it was much more entertaining than the nonsense that you get in your modern action flick. The only thing which seemed slightly far-fetched was how they desguised numerous train stations. Also, the accents were completely random. I mean, all the characters were speaking  English but sometimes with a French accent, sometimes with a German accent or sometimes with an American accent but it wasn't a big deal. I also liked the fact that pretty much all the resistance fighters had never seen any of these paintings and, yet, so many died to preventing them to be sent to Germany. Same thing about the Nazis, they didn't care about human lives or books but they were interested in these paintings but only because of their financial value so there was sometimes something slightly unreal about the whole thing. Anyway, to conclude, I thought it was pretty good and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.