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Monuments Men

Original title: The Monuments Men
  • 2014
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 58m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
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Monuments Men (2014)
In a race against time, a crew of art historians and museum curators unite to recover renowned works of art stolen by Nazis before Hitler destroys them.
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An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from German thieves and return them to their owners.An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from German thieves and return them to their owners.An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from German thieves and return them to their owners.

  • Director
    • George Clooney
  • Writers
    • George Clooney
    • Grant Heslov
    • Robert M. Edsel
  • Stars
    • George Clooney
    • Matt Damon
    • Bill Murray
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.1/10
    146K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    2,225
    789
    • Director
      • George Clooney
    • Writers
      • George Clooney
      • Grant Heslov
      • Robert M. Edsel
    • Stars
      • George Clooney
      • Matt Damon
      • Bill Murray
    • 514User reviews
    • 263Critic reviews
    • 52Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 3 nominations total

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    The Monuments Men: Shooting Blanks Over Our Heads
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    George Clooney
    George Clooney
    • Frank Stokes
    Matt Damon
    Matt Damon
    • James Granger
    Bill Murray
    Bill Murray
    • Richard Campbell
    Cate Blanchett
    Cate Blanchett
    • Claire Simone
    John Goodman
    John Goodman
    • Walter Garfield
    Jean Dujardin
    Jean Dujardin
    • Jean Claude Clermont
    Hugh Bonneville
    Hugh Bonneville
    • Donald Jeffries
    Bob Balaban
    Bob Balaban
    • Preston Savitz
    Dimitri Leonidas
    Dimitri Leonidas
    • Sam Epstein
    Justus von Dohnányi
    Justus von Dohnányi
    • Viktor Stahl
    Holger Handtke
    Holger Handtke
    • Colonel Wegner
    Michael Hofland
    • Priest (Claude)
    Zachary Baharov
    Zachary Baharov
    • Commander Elya
    • (as Zahary Baharov)
    Michael Brandner
    Michael Brandner
    • Dentist
    Sam Hazeldine
    Sam Hazeldine
    • Colonel Langton
    Miles Jupp
    Miles Jupp
    • Major Feilding
    Alexandre Desplat
    Alexandre Desplat
    • Emile
    Diarmaid Murtagh
    Diarmaid Murtagh
    • Captain Harpen
    • Director
      • George Clooney
    • Writers
      • George Clooney
      • Grant Heslov
      • Robert M. Edsel
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    PWNYCNY

    Bland movie telling an important story.

    The movie deserves an A for effort but misses the mark dramatically. The question is: why? The story is evocative and the cast is excellent. Where the movie goes wrong is how it presents the story. The movie attempts to inject a whimsical element in story which is out of context. There was nothing whimsical about the plan to save priceless artwork. Also, the story moves at a slow pace and inspires little if any excitement or drama. The discoveries of the hidden artwork has little dramatic impact, nor do the interpersonal relationships between the characters which in the movie are shallow. Even the attempt at romance comes off as tepid and half-hearted, as well as implausible. The idea of a young, handsome, married American officer, alone in Paris, having dinner in the apartment of an attractive, intelligent, single French woman who made him dinner and not staying for at least another drink is a stretch. True, he is married and his faithfulness is commendable, but still .... The movie does have some strong dramatic moments, but in general the story is bland. Yet despite the movie's drawbacks, it still manages to tell a story about an historical event of great importance and significance, and for that reason alone is worth watching.
    5napierslogs

    Telling an historical story comedically and missing a level of entertainment

    "The Monuments Men" is a group of men (in real life around 350, and in this film 7) who are tasked with saving the historically and culturally significant monuments, fine arts and archives during World War II. They have to find and return that which the French hid and the Germans were finding and stealing and then hiding. And the film decided to tell this story comedically.

    The film took a really long time to get going as they wanted it to be about the men that took on this task. But they changed their names and I also couldn't tell you a single characteristic of any of them. The men were paired off so they each had their own region to investigate, but none of that was interesting. The worst part was giving James Granger (Matt Damon) and Claire Simon (Cate Blanchett, representing the real- life heroine Rose Valland) a love story. They did have a reason for such nonsense, or how about just sticking with how it actually happened.

    George Clooney has said the film is about 80% accurate, and that seems fair enough. But the problem isn't the historical inaccuracy; the problem is that the cheap humour diminishes the very people and story they're trying to empower. The humour was just a handful of lines wanting to kill Hitler and standing on a landmine. It just didn't make the film entertaining. The story could have done that but it didn't become interesting until they started discovering where the Germans hid the art. Coincidentally, the same point when the film started following the real story.

    "The Monuments Men" very clearly wanted to help remember an important part of history and spark a debate about the cost of war on soldiers, civilians, and history and society. The debate is raging on, but the film missed the level of entertainment by not trusting its audience to be interested in exactly what happened.
    6MassDistraction

    If Wishes Were Fishes...

    In bringing together elements from Inglourious Basterds, Ocean's Eleven and Museum Hours, George Clooney certainly had plenty of opportunity for a rich and interesting story. War heroes who appreciate fine art played by the likes of Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray and John Goodman (plus a few "that guy"s), attempting to steal back priceless works of art from the Nazis, it sounds amazing.

    So what went wrong? Well, to begin with, for a movie about a team, we're given very little time with them as a group. Almost immediately they pair off on their own little adventures. Instead of using these exploits to let us know a little more about the characters as individuals, we get the usual oddball pairings and some mildly amusing, but ultimately hollow, vignettes. Even when we lose some of our team, it really feels like nothing more than just something that happened on the trip, like "oh, and I also saw a horse." We have hardly any sense of them as a group and far less about them as people. The only character whose motivations we can understand is the one played by Cate Blanchett, but her limited chemistry with Matt Damon dooms what little redemptive quality her character had.

    Also, and particularly troubling for a movie involving art, George Clooney's lens has little reverence for the work it shows. Though the film heavy-handedly ponders whether a piece of art is worth a human life, the camera never does. Even when a character lays down his life for a sculpture, it comes off less dramatic than inevitable. The film treats the works as being mostly historically significant and never finds that lover's gaze that tells the audience why.

    What we're left with is a bag of spare parts. It's a popcorn movie with no setpieces. A war movie with no battles. A heist movie with no scheming. An art movie with no inspiration. Were they to have found some of Inglourious Basterds' bluster, Ocean's Eleven smarts or Museum Hour's insight, they may have found a formula that works, but that's not the movie we have here. I'll be damned if George Clooney doesn't look good in a moustache, though.
    7tavm

    George Clooney's The Monuments Men was a good enough period drama for me

    Before I review the movie proper, some anachronisms: While there was a song called "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" in 1944 (Judy Garland introduced it in Meet Me in St. Louis), the words Ms. Garland sang then were a little different from what we know today. Like, instead of "Hang a shining star upon the highest bough" which was the line introed by Frank Sinatra in his 1957 recording, the line should have been "Until then, we'll have to muddle through sometime" which Judy sang in that movie I mentioned. Anyway, I very much enjoyed this dramatization of some art experts attempt to save as much of other countries' art from the Nazi regime as possible during World War II. Nice characterizations from Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, John Goodman, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, among others, and George Clooney who also did a nice job directing as well. Maybe there could have been a bit more drama in characterization but I was satisfied with what I got. There were some nice humorous scenes as well. So on that note, I recommend The Monuments Men.
    bay777

    Loved the Monuments Men

    I know this movie received mixed reviews, but I thought it was excellent. With so many disappointing movies lately I was pleasantly surprised that Monuments Men really delivered. I had never heard this story before and I was impressed at how it was presented. The actors were perfect for their roles and it left me feeling proud of what these men were able to accomplish.

    One thing that really struck home with me was seeing the beaches at Normandy. My uncle actually landed in the first wave, lost most of his battalion and was wounded. He never spoke about it but I know he carried the scars throughout his life.

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    • Trivia
      The "Monuments Men" were a group of approximately 345 men and women from thirteen nations, most of whom volunteered for service in the newly created MFAA section during World War II. Many had expertise as museum directors, curators, art historians, artists, architects, and educators. Their job description was simple: to protect cultural treasures so far as war allowed.
    • Goofs
      When the German asks the French assistant for a champagne glass, the woman gets a champagne coupe style glass. Some people incorrectly assume that this is an error in the movie and that a champagne flute should have been used. However, champagne flutes did not become popular until later in the twentieth century and during the World War II era the champagne coupe was the style of glass commonly used to serve champagne.
    • Quotes

      Frank Stokes: I think you should know the truth as I see it. This mission is never designed to succeed. If they were honest, they would tell us that. They'd tell us that with this many people dying, who cares about art. They're wrong. Because that's exactly what we're fighting for. For our culture and for our way of life. You can wipe out a generation of people. You can burn their homes to the ground and somehow they'll still come back. But if you destroy their achievements and their history then it's like they never existed. Just ash floating. That's what Adolf Hitler wants. And it's the one thing we simply can't allow.

    • Crazy credits
      At the beginning of the end credits there are black and white photos of the real Monuments Men with some of the art they saved.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Matt Damon/Larry the Cable Guy/Chris Isaak (2014)
    • Soundtracks
      Night And Day
      Written by Cole Porter

      Performed by Patrick Peronne (as Patrick Péronne)

      Courtesy of Promo Sound Ltd

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    • Release date
      • March 12, 2014 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • Germany
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Foundation about the people depicted in the movie
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    • Languages
      • English
      • German
      • Russian
      • French
      • Flemish
      • Dutch
    • Also known as
      • Operación monumento
    • Filming locations
      • Rye, East Sussex, England, UK(The strand, the harbour and many other areas of the town and surrounding area.)
    • Production companies
      • Columbia Pictures
      • Fox 2000 Pictures
      • Smokehouse Pictures
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    • Budget
      • $70,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $78,031,620
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $22,003,433
      • Feb 9, 2014
    • Gross worldwide
      • $156,706,638
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 58 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • Datasat
      • SDDS
      • Dolby Surround 7.1
      • Dolby Atmos
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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