Sunday, December 18, 2016

Anthropoid

Anthropoid (2016) - Directed by Sean Ellis.  Written by Sean Ellis and Anthony Frewin.  Starring Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan.

★★★

An interesting if not entirely effective historical drama based around the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia in 1942.  There are a lot of things to like in this, such as the performances of Dornan and Murphy, but it feels stretched out at 2 hours with what feels like a really tacked-on romance plot for Murphy's role, Jozef Gabčík.  Worth seeing, but not something that is essential to seek out.  You could always just read the excellent Laurent Binet novel HHHh about the assassination and the aftermath instead.

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