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Operation Finale

Name: Operation Finale
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Released: August 29, 2018
Duration: 122 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Antonia Desplat, Ben Kingsley, Greg Hill, Greta Scacchi, Haley Lu Richardson

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Release Date: August 29, 2018 | PG-13

Starring: Antonia Desplat, Ben Kingsley, Greg Hill, Greta Scacchi, Haley Lu Richardson, Joe Alwyn, Lior Raz, Mélanie Laurent, Michael Aronov, Michael Benjamin Hernandez, Nick Kroll, Ohad Knoller, Oscar Isaac, Pêpê Rapazote, Peter Strauss, Torben Liebrecht

Summary: This true story follows the 1960 covert mission of legendary Mossad agent Peter Malkin as he infiltrates Argentina and captures Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer who masterminded the transportation logistics that brought millions of innocent Jews to their deaths in concentration camps. [MGM]

Director: Chris Weitz

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, History, Thriller

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 122 min

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Chris Nashawaty

Aug 22, 2018

It’s the psychological duel between the terrific Isaac and Kingsley as captor and prisoner that delivers the film’s most charged jolts of electricity. Read full review

Soren Andersen

Aug 29, 2018

It is the scenes in a Buenos Aires safe house between Eichmann (Ben Kingsley) and Mossad agent Peter Malkin (Oscar Isaac), the leader of the abduction team, where “Operation Finale” departs from usual espionage-movie scenarios. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Aug 28, 2018

It’s a story very worth telling, told pretty well, with self-evident virtues and obvious limitations. Viewers who see it out of a sense of duty will find some pleasure in the bargain. Call it the banality of good. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Aug 22, 2018

The last thing you want a movie like this one to feel like is a slick Hollywood suspense drama with famous historical names plugged in. Operation Finale doesn’t feel like that, yet taken on its own here’s how it really happened terms, the movie is at once plausible and sketchy, intriguing and not fully satisfying. Read full review

David Fear

Aug 29, 2018

Despite the fact that the movie is stocked to the gills with screen talent — both Nick Kroll and Melanie Laurent stand out as fellow team members; Simon Russell Beale’s cameo as David Ben-Gurion deserves its own three-hour movie — it’s really a two-man job. Read full review

David Edelstein

Aug 30, 2018

The fleeting good moments in Operation Finale come from a few of the actors. Read full review

The Guardian Charles Bramesco

Aug 22, 2018

The debate over the utility of violence and the dignity owed prisoners of war has raged since time immemorial, and recent developments have only amplified the decibel level. Operation Finale zeroes in on these complex dynamics, only to erase their nuance. Read full review

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Receptioner

Aug 31, 2018

Operation Finale is a highly effective spy thriller that focuses more on procedural matters than action-- ie how the capture of Eichmann occurred, including a look inside the team who accomplished it. It presents the issue of the banality of evil, but also includes real-world informationOperation Finale is a highly effective spy thriller that focuses more on procedural matters than action-- ie how the capture of Eichmann occurred, including a look inside the team who accomplished it. It presents the issue of the banality of evil, but also includes real-world information about Eichmann that Hannah Arendt overlooked when she made her case. The story is fully engaging and more thoughtful than crowd pleasers like Mission Impossible. I do not understand all the negative reviews, unless they are motivated by animus against the topic.… Expand

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clarkaddison

Sep 13, 2018

I love this film. An amazing piece of film that needs to be watched. Shows the hardships of the Jewish people and their drive for justice. Everyone acts amazing in the film. I don`t think there is much in terms of missed opportunities or bad scenes. Love the musical score. I cannot sing it`sI love this film. An amazing piece of film that needs to be watched. Shows the hardships of the Jewish people and their drive for justice. Everyone acts amazing in the film. I don`t think there is much in terms of missed opportunities or bad scenes. Love the musical score. I cannot sing it`s praises enough.… Expand

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harvdog03

Oct 30, 2018

I really enjoyed this film. I'm a huge fan of based on a true story movies and this one was a story I wasn't aware existed. Ben Kingsley is a crazy good actor that in Schindler's List he plays a Jewish man under the NAZI regime and in this one play one of the worst NAZIs. Bravo!

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GinaK

Aug 29, 2018

I found the first half of Operation Finale a bit dull, but once Eichmann was captured, the film became riveting. Although the cast was generally very good, it wasn’t until Ben Kingsley as Eichmann entered a cat-and-mouse game with Peter Malkin (Oscar Isaac) over signing a document that wasI found the first half of Operation Finale a bit dull, but once Eichmann was captured, the film became riveting. Although the cast was generally very good, it wasn’t until Ben Kingsley as Eichmann entered a cat-and-mouse game with Peter Malkin (Oscar Isaac) over signing a document that was needed before Eichmann could be flown out of Argentina that the film became really suspenseful. The tense El Al take-off at the airport was also a nail-biter. I was also lucky enough to be in an audience of serious adults who paid as much attention as I did and finished eating before the movie started.… Expand

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jeremyp

Sep 1, 2018

A fairly straight forward Bio-pic and entertaining enough, but for the rather ridiculous, and fictional, perseveration over a signature that supposedly will make or break the mission. Like "7 days in Entebbe" it's a movie designed to enshrine the long reach of Israeli justice into the commonA fairly straight forward Bio-pic and entertaining enough, but for the rather ridiculous, and fictional, perseveration over a signature that supposedly will make or break the mission. Like "7 days in Entebbe" it's a movie designed to enshrine the long reach of Israeli justice into the common memory. Historians will find fault with both movies, but that shouldn't bother the average viewer. Entertainment comes first, then propaganda. Facts trail in last.… Expand

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tropicAces

Aug 29, 2018

The perfect movie to show in an 11th grade history class, some of the drama (and craziness of the real-life story) gets lost in the slow pacing of the film, but it is still a well-acted and well-intentioned piece.

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xSPAZZx

Sep 20, 2019

Kind of a drag...A very slow one. After the history channel has OVER saturated us with nazi hunters/nazi treasure/nazi occult...Another Nazi film does not seem to be the answer to the bombardment of our senses.

It's not a bad film, but neither is it memorable...It utitlizes EXPENSIVE actorsKind of a drag...A very slow one. After the history channel has OVER saturated us with nazi hunters/nazi treasure/nazi occult...Another Nazi film does not seem to be the answer to the bombardment of our senses.

It's not a bad film, but neither is it memorable...It utitlizes EXPENSIVE actors with shoddy editing; almost seems like they wanted to slap this together ASAP and as cheap as possible (minimalist camera angles are a fancy way of saying I didn't use enough cameras or my editor didn't spend too much time)

Idk if you wanna spend to hours watching a hollywood rendition of a historical event then be my guest...It's derivative, mildy entertaining, but nothing to exalt… Expand

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