Last year I watched the excellent Anthropoid which deals with the same subject matter. So I was wondering why there were 2 similar movies. This new movie has a broader scope showing Heydrich from the Navy to the Nazi party via his wife (a well suited Rosamund Pike). It also shows him as a father and family man. Jason Clarke does a good job and although he looks like a Nazi he actually doesn't look like Heydrich who had a long thin face. It doesn't matter though.
This story is so well suited to the screen it's still a very interesting movie to watch even though it has been done so many times - Operation Daybreak, Anthropoid and now this movie. The scope is broader than Anthropoid showing lots of brutality in Poland, what Heydrich was responsible for and later reprisals in Lidice. But Anthropoid handled the church gun battle in a more exciting action movie way so I recommend watching both movies. It's still one of the most exciting and tragic stories of WWII and is very suited to screen treatment. A major fault is the gun battle in the church is inaccurately portrayed. The Czechs were on the balcony. Also the Church isn't faithfully recreated. There is a silly deviance making the Moravec son a young boy when he was actually older.
The other cast members are like Jack O'Connell and Jack Reynor play the heroic fighters. They aren't as charismatic as Jamie Dornan and CIllian Murphy in Anthropoid but probably closer to the real people. Mia Wasikowska is quite suited to the love interest resistance girlfriend of one of them.
Despite the faults this is worth watching even if you think you think you may have seen the story before.
This story is so well suited to the screen it's still a very interesting movie to watch even though it has been done so many times - Operation Daybreak, Anthropoid and now this movie. The scope is broader than Anthropoid showing lots of brutality in Poland, what Heydrich was responsible for and later reprisals in Lidice. But Anthropoid handled the church gun battle in a more exciting action movie way so I recommend watching both movies. It's still one of the most exciting and tragic stories of WWII and is very suited to screen treatment. A major fault is the gun battle in the church is inaccurately portrayed. The Czechs were on the balcony. Also the Church isn't faithfully recreated. There is a silly deviance making the Moravec son a young boy when he was actually older.
The other cast members are like Jack O'Connell and Jack Reynor play the heroic fighters. They aren't as charismatic as Jamie Dornan and CIllian Murphy in Anthropoid but probably closer to the real people. Mia Wasikowska is quite suited to the love interest resistance girlfriend of one of them.
Despite the faults this is worth watching even if you think you think you may have seen the story before.