The movie builds - something infinitely preferable to a bold, brash beginning followed by a descent into anti-climax.
Overview
In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.
Director and cast
- Sean Ellis Director
- Jamie Dornan as Jan Kubiš
- Cillian Murphy as Josef Gabčík
- Charlotte Le Bon as Marie Kovárníková
- Anna Geislerová as Lenka Fafková
- Harry Lloyd as Adolf Opálka
- Toby Jones as Jan Zelenka
- Alena Mihulová as Mrs. Moravec
- Marcin Dorociński as Ladislav Vanék
- Bill Milner as Ata Moravec
- Sam Keeley as Josef Bublík
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Though Anthropoid lacks narrative ambition, the film justifies its reason for being thanks to a devastating final half-hour.
Anthropoid reduces a riveting and resonant piece of WW2 history to moral muddle and monotonous filmmaking. Talk about an opportunity missed.
A lot of the time the experience of the movie is like looking at a very long wobbly rectangle, and the frequently abrupt cutting doesn't help.
While it's easy to sneer at the romantic subplot, it serves to humanize the characters and convey their intense fear. Otherwise we know too little about them - beyond the fact they are all impossibly good-looking.
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