Plan A

August Diehl doesn't suit nice guy roles, and his interpretation in English makes him even weaker. It is a film that had a very good idea, however by limiting it in English it lost strength, lost veracity, a great opportunity to make a great film but it was wasted.

The scenes are sometimes long and meaningless, you can also see some avenging Jews at the beginning of the post-war period, which could have been very difficult due to the chaos in Europe at that time, due to fatigue, not having the correct information and basically being homeless and penniless.

I think August deserves better productions and should find roles that suit his character, not his ideology.

In the immediate aftermath of WWII, camp survivor Max (August Diehl) returns to find the man, who ratted out his family, has now stolen his home. He encounters a squad of the British army's Jewish brigade. They have been tracking down and executing former SS and other collaborators. They are transferred out by the British. Max remains behind to join a local Jewish squad with a darker plan.

I am going with this as Max and the group hunt down the SS. I am less convinced that he would do what he does after that. First, he would go kill the man who stole his house which led to the murder of his family. Without that, his character makes no sense. After killing the guy, he should finish off the list. I'm more than willing to believe that he would switch sides, but by that time, I don't buy his character. The story has no tension since the plan was never pulled off in the real history. I never expected them to succeed. The first half of this movie is pretty good, but the second half runs into various overall issues. In many ways, Michael would be the better lead character.

Very tense film.

Story and history told with great realism.

Never thought on this, then cruelty of humans has no limits.

However the film center the target in another history , leaving the Holocaust scenes for another kind of films. But keep you tense all the time.

The circumstances and the issues as presented in this film are very accurate--- maybe too accurate for commercial success, because many viewers may be displeased at the depiction of the German population in the aftermath of WWII. As far as the postwar vigilante killings of Nazis and the course of "Plan A" itself go, the film is again quite accurate although it simplifies the narrative by skipping past some complexities. And, strangely for a movie called "Plan A," it never mentions that there was a Plan B (less sweepingly murderous) and even a Plan C (even less so than Plan B).

I found the visual aspect very impressive. More than once, I marveled that a scene looked exactly as I'd imagined it from reading the history.

The writers and actors seem able to throw important questions out at the audience while still maintaining a feeling of naturalism. My one complaint there is that when someone is asked why the Jews didn't mount more resistance against the Nazis, the movie doesn't provide as full an answer as it could have.

And although the actors gave their all, someone decided to add drama to certain scenes by overdubbing some shivery breathing that the actors obviously weren't really doing. I had to say it. But that said, the movie presents an important episode-- we are still affected today by what, in the end, did NOT happen then-- and treats the attendant questions with due seriousness.

It's unbelievable. A true story about what's right and wrong. Revenge or forgiveness. A shame that so many anti Semitic people rate it with only 1 star. It definitely deserves a much higher rating.