Tetrady not as good as all the hype

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Jackson Booth-Millard I mainly knew about this film because of the leading actress, having seen the DVD cover many times, apart from that I didn't have a clue what the plot or story involved, I hope it may be something worth passing the time with, directed by John Madden (Mrs Brown, Shakespeare in Love, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel). Basically in 1965, Mossad agents Rachel (Jessica Chastain), Stephan (Marton Csokas) and David (Sam Worthington) are in East Berlin, they are assigned to kidnap Nazi Dieter Vogel (Quantum of Solace's Jesper Christensen), aka The Surgeon of Birkenau, a war criminal who carried out medical experiments on Jews during World War II. During the process, Stephan tells Rachel that David lost his entire family in The Holocaust, this drives his dedication to their mission, but also makes his hesitant to become emotionally involved with her, both Stephan and David are attracted to Rachel, she is attracted to David, but sleeps with Stephan. The group are successful in the abduction, with Rachel injecting the doctor with sedative during an examination, but fail to bring him to the west side, so they are forced to hold him in an apartment building, taking turns to monitor and feed him. But one night, following a severe beating from David, Vogel manages to cut through his bonds and escapes, but the trio of young agents lie to their government, telling them that Rachel killed the doctor while he was running away. More than thirty years later, in 1997, the three agents are honoured as heroes, Rachel's daughter Sarah Gold (Romi Aboulafia) is releasing a book about the mission of her mother and the two other agents. The three former agents, Rachel Singer (Dame Helen Mirren) who still bares the scar across her face, Stephan (Tom Wilkinson) who is now a paralytic in a wheelchair, and David Peretz (Ciarán Hinds) who is missing, they are now all retired. Rachel still feels uncomfortable about the lie they have been living with, out of the blue David appears in Tel Aviv and commits suicide, Stephan investigates his death. Soon enough it is discovered that Dieter Vogel is alive in a hospital in Kiev, Ukraine, and will be interviewed by a journalist, it is discovered the man is an impostor, but Rachel is shocked to see the real Vogel. Rachel is determined to travel to Kiev and conclude what should have been done all those years ago, in a confrontation Vogel stabs Rachel twice with a pair of scissors, but she kills Vogel with a poisonous syringe in the back, as she limps away, a note she wrote for journalists telling the truth about their mission is discovered, to be relayed to the world. Mirren with her short time on screen is fine, and Chastain then a rising star proves herself, there are some gripping enough action style sequences, fights and a botched mission, the switching backwards and forwards in time a little distracting, and the choice of actors playing the younger and older characters is questionable, when they don't look much like each other, is is mostly slow, but a relatively interesting spy drama thriller. Okay!

Amir Jahangiri " The debt " is about three Mossad agents which live with and suffer from a simple lie for over two decades . They made a slight change in their story when they came back home , which deceived their government and made them popular among people. In 1965 , Mossad agent Rachel Singer arrives in East Berlin to meet with fellow agent David Peretz and Stephen Gold . Their mission is to capture an infamous Nazi war surgeon who experimented unspeakable tests on Jews during WWII and give him what he truly deserves, justice.A skillfully made movie which will catch your eyes and will tell you two different version of one story , a fake one which was made by the agents to deceive the government and was meant to be the key to the agents' freedom , and the real version which could have been a disaster and turned them into criminals who betrayed their country . One of the best scenes in the movie is when they kidnap the notorious surgeon with their considerable plan that seems flawless and with a brilliant teamwork which ends in an outstanding success. This scene wants us to be patient and hold our breath till it finishes. Jessica Chastain as the main role is quite believable and her performance is rather moving.I believe that if the movie stayed just in the past, now we could have a better movie. Although it is good enough to grab our attention I assume that the writers wanted to add a little mystery to their thriller and create a puzzle in our mind, and regardless of what they did, we don't need to rack our brains to grasp the idea of the movie. All in all it's a watch-worthy movie.

azn_3004-865-192938 The Debt is good but not great, interesting but not gripping. In my opinion, this movie has a ho-hum quality to it. Most of the acting was good, but the actress who played the young Rachel was not quite believable; the character just didn't have much depth. Helen Mirren and Tom Wilkinson, while they have little face time in the movie, were, as always, good. My main problem with this movie is that it feels shallow. John Madden, the director, did basically nothing to bring the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis into the movie and therefore into viewers' psyches. There were a few photos, and once in a while you can sense, through the characters, that the Nazis' atrocities are driving the Mossad agents' lives. However, Madden fails at getting anywhere near the psychological depth of the Holocaust. For a movie like this to be successful, the director has to get the viewers to feel the Nazi horrors and therefore the compelling reason for the agents to do this mission. All in all - this movie could have been one that stays with viewers for days. As it is, it felt like "just a movie", "just a made-up story".

juneebuggy Really got into this taunt espionage thriller despite some inconsistencies and a beginning that doesn't explain itself very well, jumping around between 1997 and 1965.The acting is fantastic though from Helen Mirren & Jessica Chastain who both play 'Rachel'. Everyone involved is good actually except maybe for Sam Worthington's waffling Aussie accent. It's a very intense story, starting in 1997 with celebrated Mossad agent Rachel learning of the death of a fellow agent. She must then find the truth when a man comes forward claiming to be the Nazi war criminal she supposedly killed 30 years earlier during the mission that made her a legend. The movie follows that 1965 East Berlin assignment, including a vague love triangle and shows how it changed their lives forever.I loved how this movie made me think, what would I do? Would I take the oath? Whatever the case I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have been as compassionate as they were with their prisoner. I sure wouldn't have taken the trouble to force feed him, I'd have kept him weak, blindfolded and kicked him occasionally. That man made me hate! True evil. The ending in the Ukraine with Mirren was...unexpected and violent. 6/15/14