
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys - seven museum directo... (Full plot summary below)
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Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys - seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 - possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind's greatest achievements.
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| Las Vegas InformerVictoria AlexanderA comedy with silly music, long patriotic speeches, ham-fisted acting and the villain is Hitler's signature. |
| New York ObserverRex ReedThis is their story. It is true. It is history. As a film, it is riveting, suspenseful, harrowing and exciting, and somehow, it also manages to be something rare among war pictures—a big-scale entertainment. |
| Movie ChambersPaul ChambersThe screenplay is childlike and overly reverential. It's almost as if Clooney is afraid he's going to insult someone by getting a few laughs out of a serious subject. |
| ReviewExpress.comDiana SaengerA Touching and Courageous True Life Story |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekA fascinating story tepidly told...a prosaic, pedestrian take on a subject that should have elicited real passion from its makers. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin CliffordIt is too bad that the movie does not match its subject. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenNeither the banal conversations of the monuments men nor the widespread activities of the group make for riveting entertainment. |
| New Zealand HeraldFrancesca RudkinIt's when The Monuments Men tries to mix the funny and inspirational with the tragic reality of war that it really struggles. |
| Boston HeraldJames VerniereIf you like WWII movies, you are going to enjoy this fascinating, fact-based story. |
| BeliefnetNell MinowThe humility and devotion of the heroes cannot help but move us and, I hope, inspire us to treasure the masterworks they saved and the heroes who saved them. |