In 1966, Mossad agents Rachel Singe (Jessica Chastain), Stephen Gold (Marton Csokas), and David Peretz ( Sam Worthington) were sent to East Berlin on a mission to bring back Nazi war criminal Dieter Vogel (Jesper Christensen) to be tried for his Mengele style experiments on Jewish women and children earning him the name of the Butcher of Birkenau. The extraction attempt failed and while awaiting further order, Rachel was forced to kill Vogel.
Now it’s 1997 and Rachel (Helen Mirren) ex-husband, Stephan (Tom Wilkinson) and David (Ciarán Hinds) have been heralded heroes for three decades. Rachel and Stephan’s daughter immortalizes them in a book being released but the festivities are cut short when reports of an old man in a Ukrainian asylum claiming to be Vogel are discovered. Perhaps there is more to the agents’ story.
To call this an espionage thriller wouldn’t be very fair. Sure there is espionage, and some of it is thrilling, but much of the middle is a little dull. Do not be fooled by the gun brazen agents on the movie poster. If you’re expecting a Mission Impossible feel to the movie, you are going to be disappointed. There is some suspense during two different time periods, but these agents have not aged well at all. Even the attempted romantic triangle falls short of “tense.” Helen Mirren is nothing close to the spy she played in “Red” which is a shame, because I love a spunky older she-spy, and since it falls upon her to do the lion’s share of the wet-work, I was expecting more.
The movie does deliver on a mind challenging twist and ends well, but it may be something you wait for cable or renting a DVD for.
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