My Best Enemy (2013)
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Reviews Counted: 11
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 9
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Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 5
No consensus yet.
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In prewar Vienna, Victor Kaufmann (Moritz Bleibtreu/Soul Kitchen, The Baader-Meinhof Complex, Run Lola Run) and Rudi Smekal (Georg Friedrich/ Import/Export, Klimt, The Piano Teacher) had been the closest of friends, ever since childhood. But with Austria's annexation into the Third Reich, Rudi throws his lot in with the Nazis, hoping to gain a leg up by denouncing his Jewish friend and confiscating a Michelangelo sketch owned by Victor's family. The Kaufmanns are sent to a camp-until the
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All Critics (11) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (9)
The film plays mostly as an uneasily satirical thriller.
Top CriticAn awkward blend of anti-Semitic atrocities and identity-swapping absurdity, the World War II drama "My Best Enemy" struggles to find a convincing tone.
The script relies on too many unlikely twists, but Bleibtreu manages to sell them all.
My Best Enemy bleeds suspense like a pin-pricked tire. It wants to be clever, but survivor tales bring with them too much muck.
Strained attempt at WWII tragi-comedy isn't funny.
A banal World War II thriller dependent on contrived role reversals.
While the film generates some mild suspense and the period re-creation is convincing enough, the twists eventually become more contrived and preposterous.
A movie largely devoid of attitude or suspense.
Neither the plot of this farfetched caper nor Murenberger's approach to it, do any kind of justice to what is still, whether some people like it or not, one of the most terrible episodes in human history.
This twist-heavy World War II drama would play as an absurdist comedy if the director wasn't so dead set on excluding just about any trace of humor from his self-serious project.
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Foreign Titles
- Mein bester Feind (DE)
- My Best Enemy (Mein bester Feind) (UK)
