An average movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a decent cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. First of all, ‘HHhH’ was such a weird title. Apparently, it stands for ‘Himmlers Hirn heißt Heydrich’ meaning ‘Himmler's brain is called Heydrich’ but I’m not surprised they switched to the much accessible ‘The Man with the Iron Heart’ at some point. Anyway, beside its title, the material was actually pretty strong but, to be honest, I wasn’t so sure by the approach they took. Basically, the movie was divided into 2 parts, the first one dealing with the rise of Reinhard Heydrich within the 3^rd Reich and the second one dealing with the suicide mission to get rid of him but this mix didn’t really work and the end-result was 2 rather half-baked stories. The first part focusing on Reinhard Heydrich had the most potential, even if the first couple of scenes were rather clunky. Indeed, I have to admit that I had never heard of the guy before but it was a rather fascinating character. Unfortunately, in spite a really solid performance by Jason Clarke, eventually, we didn’t really get any insights about this psycho. Indeed, what was his drive? Why was he so fanatic about his horrifying and completely messed-up job? I mean, the only thing you get is that, when his wife first met him, someone told her he was ‘weird’. The second part was even more problematic though. Indeed, out of nowhere, they dropped Heydrich and focused on the 2 guys who killed him but this switch was just jarring. To make things worse, these 2 heros, Jan Kubis and Jozef Gabcík, were even less developed than Heydrich. Seriously, you learn basically nothing about them except that the first thing they did when they got back to Czechoslovakia was to both hook up with some random girls. I won’t blame Jack O'Connell and Jack Reynor, they did what they could with this material but their characters were just terribly uncharismatic. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, it remains a really interesting story and I think it is worth a look but there is no doubt that it could have been so much better.