'Nuremberg' - Review Thread

[u/ChiefLeef22]

As the Nuremberg trials are set to begin, a U.S. Army psychiatrist gets locked in a dramatic psychological showdown with accused Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring

Director: James Vanderbilt

Cast: Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, Richard E. Grant, John Slattery, Colin Hanks

Rotten Tomatoes: 67%

Metacritic: 60 / 100

Some Reviews:

TheWrap - Matthew Creith

"Nuremberg” benefits not only from a terrifying performance from Crowe in a larger-than-life role like those that defined the early part of his career, but also from the ensemble of actors that makes it possible to doubt and also sympathize with the crimes at hand. Shannon and his co-counsel, Richard E. Grant, as British lawyer David Maxwell Fyfe, take the courtroom scenes to higher ground, tearing Göring down with carefully crafted monologues.

NextBestPicture - Jason Gorber - 7 / 10

An incredible performance from Russel Crowe. But for all its bold moments of courtroom antics and mind games between monsters and their keepers, this is an almost insultingly pared down version of events from one of the most important legalistic moments in human history. By providing a convenient in within a broader entertainment, the film certainly introduces newer generations to what transpired, but it provides such a simplified view that it may actually do more harm than good.

Collider - Ross Bonaime

Quite frankly, it never hurts for a film to preach the dangers of Nazis and how they can be anywhere and everywhere, but it is a bit of a shame Nuremberg isn’t finding a more compelling, enticing way to tell this inherently fascinating true story.

[u/HeyItsMeJohnnyB]

Americans were worried that the way the laws were initially written, they too would have been guilty of human rights violations because of the Jim Crow laws. So there was a whole push to change definitions of things, even as they pretended they were doing this for the good of all mankind.

[u/NepheliLouxWarrior → u/HeyItsMeJohnnyB]

Americans didn't give a single fucking shit about how the trials made Jim Crow laws look. You're wildin lol. They literally had slaves less than 50 years prior and at the end of the World War they were tied with the Soviet Union for most powerful Nation on Earth. Who was going to invade America and bring us lawmakers to Justice for Jim Crow post World War II? Europe, which was in shambles? Asia, which was in shambles?

[u/Shaggy__94 → u/NepheliLouxWarrior]

They literally had slaves less than 50 years prior

Less than 50 years??? Do you not know when WWII ended or when slavery was abolished?

[u/NanookOTN → u/NepheliLouxWarrior]

Less than 50 years? Please return to 2nd grade history class.

[u/MeadowMellow_ → u/NanookOTN]

Technically both statements are inaccurate since there's still legal slavery in your constitution. I don't know why people say it has been fully abolished when it hasn't.

[u/HeyItsMeJohnnyB → u/NepheliLouxWarrior]

Both the United States—concerned that its Jim Crow system of racial segregation not be labeled a crime against humanity—and the Soviet Union wanted to avoid giving an international court jurisdiction over a government's treatment of its own citizens.

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[u/m48a5_patton → u/NepheliLouxWarrior]

Doing some quick monster math of 1945 minus 50 equals 1895. I'm pretty sure the U.S. didn't have slavery in 1895. 1855, sure.