A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

I'm sure Mr Clooney had some good intentions for making this work but did he really have to set his hand to writing and directing? These tasks he has done rather poorly and drags much of his good intentions down to the level of a typical Dirty Dozen meets Oceans 11 type - this story needed more respect. It's also getting to be overly obvious that George 'casts' his cigarettes as closely as his co stars - everything he does features smoking as a major influence to the story (looks ominously like payola unfortunately?) His big cast are also pretty much your Hollywood HBO TV variety and their characters are underdeveloped to the point of creating little empathy. Pity, as the initial-based-on-fact story is worth a far stronger treatment. A good documentary could have covered this more convincingly. I'd recommend taking another look at Frankenheimer's "The Train" to get a better understanding of the significance of this whole Nazi 'Art theft' business. George was fortunate to get his big budget back but, I suspect many might have been somewhat disappointed with the end product considering such a costly input.

When they could get it so right with Private Ryan, how could they get it so wrong with this? In case you are wondering this is set in wartime Europe, yet every town and city is lit up like Disneyland on steroids - apparently never heard of the blackout. Even military camps near the front line are complete with floodlighting and every soldier wandering around carrying a torch, that's not to mention the shower tent with lashings of hot water at the Battle of the Bulge! Paris in wartime apparently had loads of women dressed to the nines gazing at the latest fashions on display in the shops, even Cate Blanchettes flat was stuffed with every mod con and of course lashings of food and wine. War torn Europe after almost five years of war was a place of misery and deprivation, with destruction that obviously could not be imagined by the producers of this film. It completely ruined the whole structure of the film, the team appeared to be looking for stolen good in downtown New York!

With a cast like Bill Murray and John Goodman you'll think that this has a lot of comedy, but there is very little to laugh at, don't go in thinking there is. Though there are a few incidence of dry humor, some really good, they are very little and very few. A lot of the movie is just what the plot says, a group of middle age art experts, drafted into the army to chase down vast art collections stolen by the NAZI High Command to fill Hitler's planned 'Hitler Art Museum'.

Set in WWII the MM's were specialists sent to Europe to save priceless works of art from Nazi stockpiles/destroyers. Real men women, were responsible for finding stashed collections and protecting art galleries and museums and returned family heirlooms to Jewish owners when they were taken by Hilter's men. Well acted, with a star-studded cast, the sets, costumes, locations and everything about the film was excellent. Damon, Goodman and Blanchett were stand out. There was a little comedy to keep the story rolling along, and realistic and poignant enough to be a valid war film but without all the gore and graphic tragedy. Some of the most heartbreaking scenes were of burning of pictures and books, one of the horrors of war which rarely gets much press. Based on a true story, possibly directly true but for film it needed a little more suspense and less contrived quick solution... for my money. Interesting spectacle of history, however.