Plan A

Based on a true story which normally grabs my interest anyway, this is a film generally worth a watch August Diehl who tends to be cast in this sort of movie gives a decent enough performance.

We are watching this right now, it's strange, the first voice says a few words, he says what would you do? It's all for no reason. Isn't this happening worldwide right now? History repeating itself. Okay there's a reason but I don't agree with it: we use far too many resources that can lead to a very uncertain future for us all so we need to act before 2030.

Very tense film. Story and history told with great realism. Never thought on this, then cruelty of humans has no limits. However the film center the target in another history , leaving the Holocaust scenes for another kind of films. But keep you tense all the time.

A movie with an actual universal ethical question, that goes beyond the historical moment depicted by the directors : the answer is yours, but try to be honest, as if you lie to yourself there is no Plan B.

It begins: 'Based on a true story' and that's exactly what it delivers. These were extraordinary times where simple unvarnished truth would have been an incredibly powerful way of telling this particular story. Unfortunately, creative license greatly diminishes rather than heightens what should have been storytelling at its finest. The ending, in particular, betrays the integrity of real events. The high-scoring ratings here seem similarly gratuitous. Is it better than Schindler's List (8.9 and seven Oscars)? Or Life is Beautiful (8.6 and 3 Oscars)? Or The Pianist (8.5 and 3 Oscars)? The acting's is good, as are the production values and it's a decent enough film. But truth, especially given the subject matter, is infinitely more powerful than fiction.

This movie makes you think. That is why I gave it a ten! So few movies today grip you into it like this one did for me. I love movies that make sense in todays world as in the world past. Brilliant Movie.

The circumstances and the issues as presented in this film are very accurate--- maybe too accurate for commercial success, because many viewers may be displeased at the depiction of the German population in the aftermath of WWII. As far as the postwar vigilante killings of Nazis and the course of "Plan A" itself go, the film is again quite accurate although it simplifies the narrative by skipping past some complexities. And, strangely for a movie called "Plan A," it never mentions that there was a Plan B (less sweepingly murderous) and even a Plan C (even less so than Plan B). I found the visual aspect very impressive. More than once, I marveled that a scene looked exactly as I'd imagined it from reading the history. The writers and actors seem able to throw important questions out at the audience while still maintaining a feeling of naturalism. My one complaint there is that when someone is asked why the Jews didn't mount more resistance against the Nazis, the movie doesn't provide as full an answer as it could have. And although the actors gave their all, someone decided to add drama to certain scenes by overdubbing some shivery breathing that the actors obviously weren't really doing. I had to say it. But that said, the movie presents an important episode-- we are still affected today by what, in the end, did NOT happen then-- and treats the attendant questions with due seriousness.

I've studied what has recently been dubbed the "holocaust" for well over 50 years and have unearthed all kinds of things, smuggled out personal documents of victims as well as Nazi records. The period was a historian's dream. The Germans and their allies, particularly the Poles, where so many camps were located, were very proud of their achievements in butchery and slaughter and maintained vast and impeccable records, the bulk of which were captured. Still, I never heard of this situation. Of course and film that purports to tell a "true story", or better yet, "based on a true story" is usually utter nonsense. Based on a "true set of fictions and blatant lies" is synonymous with "based on a "story". Still, it doesn't matter. Horror on this level creates its own mythos. The mythos becomes the reality the second the reality ends. And that story then enters eternity. So this version, whatever the case may actually have been, an idea, a partially carried out notion be a few people, or nothing at all, still serves its metaphoric source of origin well. There are enough heavily documented acts of retribution and acts of staggering courage during and after incarceration, that only the most virulent of demented anti-semites could deny as they are as real as gravity. The movie? Terrific and committed acting. One of the better films on the aftermath of the death camps. Its literality is questionable and I'll look for citations, but that isn't so important. There are many references to certain specific that are absolutely confirmed, by photographic records as well as survivors and of course Nuremberg. Germans don't merely provide the best photographic sexual *. They also loved taking pictures of their medical experiments and before they perfected the and industrialized and fully mechanized their death camps, they enjoyed photographing hundreds of people digging their mass graves and then lining them up and placing a 9mm bullet in the back of their heads, lining them up so they would fall into the pits in an orderly sort of way. All captured on film, and so much more. A montage of real footage in a great documentarians hands would be a devastating film. Meanwhile, it seems that sometimes the spirit trumps the letter. After all, it is the impulse, the thought made manifest. The myth of christ, "if you sin in your heart" etc. Christ himself, like Krishna and all the rest, there is zero historically reliable evidence o suggest even existed.....but does that matter. The idea is far more powerful and enduring then anything a starving ragged "prophet" might have actually stated thousands of years ago. Ideas confer infinities and timelessness, not physical realities. That's what this movie is about to me. Reality becoming myth and myth becoming reality. It's a great piece of work this with wonderful acting.

Text: Based on a true story. After WWII there were two groups of Jews operating in Germany. One consisted of those who wanted to kill as many Nazis as possible and rescue Jews to occupy Palestine and take it over as their homeland. A second group wanted to kill as many Germans, including civilians as possible and most likely foil the plans for a homeland. This is yet another true story about the cruelty of WWII. The film moved slow and the characters were boring.