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Gedeck is brilliant in this film


Well she is. It made the film more like "The Tragedy Of Ulrike Meinhoff." And that's good.

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The thought running through my head as I was watching it is summed up in your new title, because Gedeck's performace and her character's arc was the standout in the film. Having the film stick with her perspective would have elevated it above the dry History Channel territory it constantly veers into. A good history lesson nonetheless but for a movie purporting to be a thriller it needed a human anchor, and for being so shootout heavy, it all looked a little too stale, televisual and lacking in tension. Imagine what Paul Greengrass could do with this material (and not just add the obviously Bourne influenced score).





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