Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Loui Blair It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

AaronCapenBanner Based on Fredrick Forsyth's novel, and well directed by Ronald Neame, this thriller stars Jon Voight as journalist Peter Miller, who, after reading the diary of a suicide victim, learns of a recent sighting of a fugitive S.S. death camp commander(played by Maximilian Schell) so works with an underground Israeli group to infiltrate Odessa, a group comprised of fugitive Nazis, dedicated to aiding them evade authorities and set them up financially. He succeeds in joining the group, but we later learn that Peter has an ulterior motive in his mission... Future "Doctor Who" companion Mary Tamm plays his girlfriend Sigi, who supports him all she can, even at risk of her own life.Another smart and engrossing thriller from a Forsyth novel is also well acted and exciting, leading to a good climax. A bit incredible at times, but entertaining.

phd_travel This thriller should go down as a classic. It has a convincing story a rare thing in movies that try to blend historical fact and fiction. It's tense from beginning to end and doesn't have annoying red herrings or plot twists.The casting is perfect. Maximillian Schell is ideal as the Nazi war criminal. Jon Voight is surprisingly convincing as a German accent and all. Good use of European supporting cast to avoid a fake feel.Good on location feel to it. Liked the evocative score too.It's one of the best thrillers about WWII subject matter even though it is set after the war.

JasparLamarCrabb Certainly not as spellbinding as it's horrifying plot promises, but this is nonetheless an exciting, well made thriller. German journalist Jon Voight uncovers a plot to utilize Nazi ingenuity(?) to aid Egypt in its plan to annihilate Isreal in the early 1960s. Hooking up with Isreali intelligence, he hunts all over Germany and Austria for lunatic ex-Concentration Camp Commandant Maximilian Schell. Directed with more finesse than usual by Ronald Neame (a great film editor who became a decidedly journeyman director) and featuring some stellar cinematography by Oswald Morris. Voight is pretty good and Schell is decidedly nasty. Shmuel Rodensky has a cameo as Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. While the film is set in and around Germany, all the players speak English with a German accent. The music by none other than Andrew Lloyd Webber includes the song "Christmas Dream" sung by Perry Como. Maria Schell plays Voight's mother and Mary Tamm, Derek Jacobi & Günter Meisner are in it too.

cmeneken-1 This film is remarkable on many levels, but two stand out: 1) the realistic portrayal of the events in Riga, wherein thousands of Jews were massacred by the Nazis, and 2) the fact that the "butcher" of these events in the film was not a fictional ploy but an actual SS officer named, as in the film, Rosschmann. The latter point is of interest, since the film provoked a world wide hunt for this murderer, who was located in South America, and who then fled to Paraguay where he died in 1977. The first part of the film is near perfect, though it gets more melodramatic in the latter part, with a number of unconvincing dramatic events added. One example: the journalist(Voight)attacking the burly professional hit man sent to kill him, and then actually winning a hand to hand struggle with him.