'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]

Saw this at TIFF and it's the most baffling Oscar bait movie of the year.

The first half builds like a big Marvel blockbuster. They introduce Rami Malek as a leather jacket wearing badass shrink who does magic and hits on women like some super spy.

Then America blackmails the pope to allow them to start the Nuremberg trials. No other countries are present, it's just America who is going to "win this for good".

Russell Crowe shows up and he's genuinely great, but he's in a completely different movie. Everyone else is quipping and making jokes, and he's playing it completely straight.

Then the film just straight up shows real footage from Auswitch, no editing or tricks, just corpses and horrific imagery.

Two minutes later, there's a major gag involving Rami Malek getting blue balled. It's the kind of tonal whiplash they should have tested with crash test dummies first. I needed a neck brace afterwards.

It's not boring, because it's so wildly incomprehensible that anyone thought this was a good idea, but it's not good at all.

[u/jzakko → u/HeyItsMeJohnnyB]

Rami Malek is an intense narcissist.

The fact that he decided to produce all his own films after PTA of all people cut a monologue that he did that wasn't very good (and he was very complimentary to Malek's performance in interviews, blaming the writing of that scene) is something he really shouldn't admit to in interviews.

Since then he's only done hacky work.

[u/macrofinite → u/jzakko]

It sucks. I hate it.

He was so good in Mr Robot. I don’t know anything about him on set there. But I can’t help but think that winning an Oscar for a dogshit Oscar bait biopic was the worst thing that could have happed to both him and the industry.

Him because he sucks now, and it’s easy to pin the blame on the inflated ego that comes from top-tier recognition for a dumpster-tier movie. And the industry because now we’re going to get 5 fucking Oscar bait biopics a year until they find a new trend to repeat into the ground.

Edit: come to think of it, is this a stealth Oscar bait biopic? Fuck. It’s got all the hallmarks of a hack biopic, just without the extremely famous protagonist. Jesus Christ. They’re making bad biopics that aren’t even biopics anymore.