Mr. M.

Whoever gave more than one star to this 'thing' is delusional. Capone gets a full star, because it is infact a movie, despite missing most of the crucial elements that made great directors such as Scorses or Coppola. The plot, for example, is completely absent. 1h and 43 m of nothingness: i thought this to be a most remarkable choice in terms of directing. Please, whatever you have done in your life, you do not deserve to watch this.

For some reason, at the moment, they cannot help but producing the equivalent of a Daily Mirror applied to investigative movies every two minutes...dull afternoon: we decided to give it a shot. A few points for the careless viewer: - I hope you like time jumps....this movie is 5% summaries and 95% in the past/present, but, at the same time. It is a bit like a series of Shroedinger: if you do not watch the screen, the plot is still moving forward and not moving forward at the same time. The continuous, relentless and pointless use of time jumps really made it hard to follow (in terms of patience, not as difficulty). - The plot is based on a true, tragic story. In current money terms, this means lots of people died to provide the BBC with material good enough to produce a very generous series of 8 episodes, (we could have left them to rest in peace in less than 4), a mere 45 years after the tragic happenings (or 45 years in the future depending how you want to view the matter; using the directory techniques we could say 75 yrs ahead and 3 little jumps of ten years in the past every now and then). The acting, is also a tragic story, but a few of the main characters really saved the day (like the Dutch fellow at the embassy).... I would say three stars out of five, because it is a meaningful story...although told in a very, very clumsy way.

Where to start? This movie is not a 5 stars movie, not a 4, not even a 3....I would say 2 stars, one for each hour of my life I wasted watching it. There is only one thing more stupid than the plot of this movie: American trucks, which are a good half of the plot itself.... Get ready for 119min of people moving around with no purpose whatsoever and then magically getting to Canada and then Greenland (oops, spoiler alert), land of mystery and many legends (such as the one of the guy who ruined his finances producing this movie). Enjoy!

I am giving it a one star out of 5, because it is surely a film and thus should be rated. Whether Clooney should be punished for inflicting this "thing" upon us, that is open for debate. There is simply no plot whatsoever: just G.C. for an hour and 58 interminable minutes. It is a pity, because it actually had so many possibilities (and tragic reality) in it.

After two episodes I gave up. It happened once before: it was Twilight...truly, truly bad. Not even Anderson could save this stuff.