The Monuments Men2014
The Monuments Men (2014)
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Critic Consensus: Its intentions are noble and its cast is impressive, but neither can compensate for The Monuments Men's stiffly nostalgic tone and curiously slack narrative.
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Cast
as Frank Stokes
as James Granger
as Richard Campbell
as Walter Garfield
as Jean Claude Clermont
as Preston Savitz
as Donald Jeffries
as Claire Simone
as Sam Epstein
as Viktor Stahl
as Colonel Wegner
as Priest (Claude)
as Commander Elya
as Dentist
as Colonel Langton
as Major Feilding
as Captain Harpen
as Rene Armand
as Sniper Boy
as Aachen Vicar
as Sniper Boy
as Hermann Goering
as Young French Girl
as Doctor
as Young Dying Soldier
as President Roosevelt
as President Truman
as German Commander
as German 2nd in Command
as Colonel at Caen
as Hitler
as St. Bavo Priest
as French Truck Driver
as Nun
as Siegen Private
as Brit Private
as Brit GI Translator
as German POW
as German POW
as Bruges Priest
as Colonel Gregg
as ADSEC Sarge
as Supply Sargeant
as Stahl's Child
as Shahl's Child
as French Armed Man
as Brit Private-Bruges
as Older Stokes
as German Soldier at Ghent
as Major Piper
as Sarge Near Altaussee
as Stahl's Wife
as Stokes' Son
as Stokes' Grandson
as Priest In Truck
as Jean Claude's Wife
as Voice of Campbell's Daughter
as Voice of Campbell's Granddaughter
as Voice of Campbell's Granddaughter
as Emile
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Critic Reviews for The Monuments Men
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We may have gained something in humor by not taking the saviors in the art-rescue story very seriously, but we've lost just about all of the romantic pleasures of heroism.
The movie does a good job of illustrating why protecting art from the Nazi scourge was important but it's far less effective fleshing out the personalities of the people who did the protecting.
A frustratingly flat film that drifts from moment to moment with a curious lack of urgency and an overbearing sense of self-importance.
If The Monuments Men never overcomes its unwieldy structure and unevenness of tone, the film still manages to make a profound, even subtle point: that Hitler's darkest impulses and annihilating reach extended from human beings to history itself.
This is a sturdy, old-school, big-scale Greatest Generation war movie. It's great escapism.
Think of them as Inglorious Art Historians. Only this PG-13 entertainment has little of the edge, however complicated, of Quentin Tarantino's 2009 Holocaust revenge flick.
Audience Reviews for The Monuments Men
Underrated feel good buddy comedy that has some older Allied gents trying to save art masterpieces from the clutches of greedy opportunistic Nazi types. While uneven this Clooney love child has it's moments.
Super Reviewer
The premise is fun, making you think of 70s WW2 caper movies. I don't know how they managed to combine such a fantastic cast and yet make every single character and actor feel underused. The decision to split up the team didn't help. The direction and look of the film are great and there are glimpses of what could have been. But the plot remains somewhat undecided, sometimes hinting at the terrors of war while being entirely unexciting at the same time. Entertaining but also a missed opportunity. Pity.
Super Reviewer
Not bad but not too great either. With the subject matter and that cast this should have been so much better.
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The Monuments Men Quotes
| Walter Garfield: | The army may not care about art, but they sure as shit care about gold. |
| Claire Simone: | Will you stop speaking French? or what ever language you're speaking? |
| James Granger: | If it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking German. |
| Preston Savitz: | No. If it wasn't for you, I'd be dead. But I'd still be speaking French. |
| German Soldier at Ghent: | John Wayne... |
| Richard Campbell: | Yes, John Wayne... |
| Richard Campbell: | Right now, you wish that German had shot you. |