Anthropoid

The movie also boasts one of the greatest shootout scenes since “The Wild Bunch.” But the image that’s seared into my mind is of another sort: a trembling soldier trying desperately to stop shaking long enough to load his gun.

3090d ago

Although Mr. Ellis, also the film’s cinematographer and co-screenwriter, has by then demonstrated his finesse with location shooting and period details, you are unprepared for the bravura pyrotechnics of the climax. They are dazzling to behold.

3090d ago

Although Mr. Ellis, also the film’s cinematographer and co-screenwriter, has by then demonstrated his finesse with location shooting and period details, you are unprepared for the bravura pyrotechnics of the climax. They are dazzling to behold.

3090d ago

Although Mr. Ellis, also the film’s cinematographer and co-screenwriter, has by then demonstrated his finesse with location shooting and period details, you are unprepared for the bravura pyrotechnics of the climax. They are dazzling to behold.

3090d ago

Although Mr. Ellis, also the film’s cinematographer and co-screenwriter, has by then demonstrated his finesse with location shooting and period details, you are unprepared for the bravura pyrotechnics of the climax. They are dazzling to behold.

3090d ago

Director Sean Ellis's film offers a potent examination of the moral rectitude of resistance.

3090d ago

Director Sean Ellis's film offers a potent examination of the moral rectitude of resistance.

3090d ago

Director Sean Ellis's film offers a potent examination of the moral rectitude of resistance.

3090d ago

Director Sean Ellis's film offers a potent examination of the moral rectitude of resistance.

3090d ago

But though Anthropoid lacks narrative ambition, the film justifies its reason for being thanks to a devastating final half-hour.

3090d ago

But though Anthropoid lacks narrative ambition, the film justifies its reason for being thanks to a devastating final half-hour.

3090d ago

Two Czechoslovakian freedom fighters are parachuted into their occupied homeland in a bid to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the ‘Butcher of Prague’.

3090d ago

But though Anthropoid lacks narrative ambition, the film justifies its reason for being thanks to a devastating final half-hour.

3090d ago

Cillian Murphy stars in this intelligent thriller about the Czech resistance fighters who assassinated an architect of the Holocaust in 1942.

3090d ago

What these resistance fighters were able to do was truly inspiring and Ellis, who up until this point has mistakenly used minimal score, collaborates with composer Robin Foster for an emotional finale that packs a punch. In different hands this particular sequence could have succumbed to predictable cliché, but “Anthropoid” surprises by giving these heroes a genuine and heartbreaking send off. For some, that alone might make the long wait to get there worthwhile.

3090d ago

But though Anthropoid lacks narrative ambition, the film justifies its reason for being thanks to a devastating final half-hour.

3090d ago

Cillian Murphy stars in this intelligent thriller about the Czech resistance fighters who assassinated an architect of the Holocaust in 1942.

3090d ago

Two Czechoslovakian freedom fighters are parachuted into their occupied homeland in a bid to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the ‘Butcher of Prague’.

3090d ago

Cillian Murphy stars in this intelligent thriller about the Czech resistance fighters who assassinated an architect of the Holocaust in 1942.

3090d ago

What these resistance fighters were able to do was truly inspiring and Ellis, who up until this point has mistakenly used minimal score, collaborates with composer Robin Foster for an emotional finale that packs a punch. In different hands this particular sequence could have succumbed to predictable cliché, but “Anthropoid” surprises by giving these heroes a genuine and heartbreaking send off. For some, that alone might make the long wait to get there worthwhile.

3090d ago

Two Czechoslovakian freedom fighters are parachuted into their occupied homeland in a bid to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the ‘Butcher of Prague’.

3090d ago

Cillian Murphy stars in this intelligent thriller about the Czech resistance fighters who assassinated an architect of the Holocaust in 1942.

3090d ago

What these resistance fighters were able to do was truly inspiring and Ellis, who up until this point has mistakenly used minimal score, collaborates with composer Robin Foster for an emotional finale that packs a punch. In different hands this particular sequence could have succumbed to predictable cliché, but “Anthropoid” surprises by giving these heroes a genuine and heartbreaking send off. For some, that alone might make the long wait to get there worthwhile.

3090d ago

What these resistance fighters were able to do was truly inspiring and Ellis, who up until this point has mistakenly used minimal score, collaborates with composer Robin Foster for an emotional finale that packs a punch. In different hands this particular sequence could have succumbed to predictable cliché, but “Anthropoid” surprises by giving these heroes a genuine and heartbreaking send off. For some, that alone might make the long wait to get there worthwhile.

3090d ago

Two Czechoslovakian freedom fighters are parachuted into their occupied homeland in a bid to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the ‘Butcher of Prague’.

3090d ago

Filmed in sepia tones to give it period flavor, infused with a sense of unrelieved tension and paranoia, and climaxing with a furious gunbattle, Anthropoid is a gripping picture.

3090d ago

Filmed in sepia tones to give it period flavor, infused with a sense of unrelieved tension and paranoia, and climaxing with a furious gunbattle, Anthropoid is a gripping picture.

3090d ago

For better and worse, Anthropoid stays true to its Nazi-killing true story.

3090d ago

Filmed in sepia tones to give it period flavor, infused with a sense of unrelieved tension and paranoia, and climaxing with a furious gunbattle, Anthropoid is a gripping picture.

3090d ago

For better and worse, Anthropoid stays true to its Nazi-killing true story.

3090d ago

For better and worse, Anthropoid stays true to its Nazi-killing true story.

3090d ago

For better and worse, Anthropoid stays true to its Nazi-killing true story.

3090d ago

Filmed in sepia tones to give it period flavor, infused with a sense of unrelieved tension and paranoia, and climaxing with a furious gunbattle, Anthropoid is a gripping picture.

3090d ago

Sean Ellis’ old-fashioned World War II resistance movie is tricked out with hand-held camera-work and the inevitable surfeit of close-ups. The true story is astounding: In 1942, Czechoslovakian nationals Jan Kubiš (Jamie Dornan) and Jozef Gabčík (Cillian Murphy) parachuted into the midst of the occupation and assassinated the Nazis’ brutal third-in-command, Reinhard Heydrich.

3090d ago

Sean Ellis’ old-fashioned World War II resistance movie is tricked out with hand-held camera-work and the inevitable surfeit of close-ups. The true story is astounding: In 1942, Czechoslovakian nationals Jan Kubiš (Jamie Dornan) and Jozef Gabčík (Cillian Murphy) parachuted into the midst of the occupation and assassinated the Nazis’ brutal third-in-command, Reinhard Heydrich.

3090d ago

Sean Ellis’ old-fashioned World War II resistance movie is tricked out with hand-held camera-work and the inevitable surfeit of close-ups. The true story is astounding: In 1942, Czechoslovakian nationals Jan Kubiš (Jamie Dornan) and Jozef Gabčík (Cillian Murphy) parachuted into the midst of the occupation and assassinated the Nazis’ brutal third-in-command, Reinhard Heydrich.

3090d ago

Sean Ellis’ old-fashioned World War II resistance movie is tricked out with hand-held camera-work and the inevitable surfeit of close-ups. The true story is astounding: In 1942, Czechoslovakian nationals Jan Kubiš (Jamie Dornan) and Jozef Gabčík (Cillian Murphy) parachuted into the midst of the occupation and assassinated the Nazis’ brutal third-in-command, Reinhard Heydrich.

3090d ago

Aesthetically, Anthropoid is a model of respectable period recreation, making the best use it can with limited locations to embody the time and place – even if, again, the attempt to replicate the mindset of the time, which I’d argue is far more important, is half-assed.

3090d ago

Aesthetically, Anthropoid is a model of respectable period recreation, making the best use it can with limited locations to embody the time and place – even if, again, the attempt to replicate the mindset of the time, which I’d argue is far more important, is half-assed.

3090d ago

Aesthetically, Anthropoid is a model of respectable period recreation, making the best use it can with limited locations to embody the time and place – even if, again, the attempt to replicate the mindset of the time, which I’d argue is far more important, is half-assed.

3090d ago

Aesthetically, Anthropoid is a model of respectable period recreation, making the best use it can with limited locations to embody the time and place – even if, again, the attempt to replicate the mindset of the time, which I’d argue is far more important, is half-assed.

3090d ago

Written and directed by Sean Ellis, “Anthropoid,” despite a title that to some might seem to promise a “Predator”-style sci-fi thriller, is in fact a historical drama based, as they like to say, on true events.

3090d ago

Anthropoid does the disservice of rendering this bit of World War II history dull and colorless. I’m sure there’s a History Channel show that tells the tale better.

3090d ago

Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy spearhead a mission to assassinate a top-ranking Nazi officer in a thriller that doesn't actually get thrilling until after the deed is done.

3090d ago

Do we call Anthropoid a thriller? Sean Ellis's earnest, day-ruining WWII bullet-a-thon is rooted in fact but comes on like pulp fiction in its first reels, hitting secret-mission story beats old enough to have served in the big war. As freedom fighters Jan (Jamie Dornan) and Josef (Cillian Murphy) skulk about 1942 Prague, cooking up a plan to assassinate the powerful Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, they face the usual suspense-building Hollywood silliness.

3090d ago

Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan headline this drama about Operation Anthropoid, which targeted Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Holocaust.

3090d ago

Thriller about an operation to destroy architects of the Third Reich could not be duller.

3090d ago

Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy spearhead a mission to assassinate a top-ranking Nazi officer in a thriller that doesn't actually get thrilling until after the deed is done.

3090d ago

Dornan and Cillian Murphy star as two real-life Czech resistance fighters — but a fascinating real-life story doesn’t guarantee an interesting movie.

3090d ago

Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy spearhead a mission to assassinate a top-ranking Nazi officer in a thriller that doesn't actually get thrilling until after the deed is done.

3090d ago

Dornan and Cillian Murphy star as two real-life Czech resistance fighters — but a fascinating real-life story doesn’t guarantee an interesting movie.

3090d ago

Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy spearhead a mission to assassinate a top-ranking Nazi officer in a thriller that doesn't actually get thrilling until after the deed is done.

3090d ago

Thriller about an operation to destroy architects of the Third Reich could not be duller.

3090d ago

Thriller about an operation to destroy architects of the Third Reich could not be duller.

3090d ago

Dornan and Cillian Murphy star as two real-life Czech resistance fighters — but a fascinating real-life story doesn’t guarantee an interesting movie.

3090d ago

Do we call Anthropoid a thriller? Sean Ellis's earnest, day-ruining WWII bullet-a-thon is rooted in fact but comes on like pulp fiction in its first reels, hitting secret-mission story beats old enough to have served in the big war. As freedom fighters Jan (Jamie Dornan) and Josef (Cillian Murphy) skulk about 1942 Prague, cooking up a plan to assassinate the powerful Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, they face the usual suspense-building Hollywood silliness.

3090d ago

Anthropoid does the disservice of rendering this bit of World War II history dull and colorless. I’m sure there’s a History Channel show that tells the tale better.

3090d ago

Do we call Anthropoid a thriller? Sean Ellis's earnest, day-ruining WWII bullet-a-thon is rooted in fact but comes on like pulp fiction in its first reels, hitting secret-mission story beats old enough to have served in the big war. As freedom fighters Jan (Jamie Dornan) and Josef (Cillian Murphy) skulk about 1942 Prague, cooking up a plan to assassinate the powerful Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, they face the usual suspense-building Hollywood silliness.

3090d ago

Written and directed by Sean Ellis, “Anthropoid,” despite a title that to some might seem to promise a “Predator”-style sci-fi thriller, is in fact a historical drama based, as they like to say, on true events.

3090d ago

Thriller about an operation to destroy architects of the Third Reich could not be duller.

3090d ago

Anthropoid does the disservice of rendering this bit of World War II history dull and colorless. I’m sure there’s a History Channel show that tells the tale better.

3090d ago

Anthropoid does the disservice of rendering this bit of World War II history dull and colorless. I’m sure there’s a History Channel show that tells the tale better.

3090d ago

Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan headline this drama about Operation Anthropoid, which targeted Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Holocaust.

3090d ago

Written and directed by Sean Ellis, “Anthropoid,” despite a title that to some might seem to promise a “Predator”-style sci-fi thriller, is in fact a historical drama based, as they like to say, on true events.

3090d ago

Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan headline this drama about Operation Anthropoid, which targeted Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Holocaust.

3090d ago

Do we call Anthropoid a thriller? Sean Ellis's earnest, day-ruining WWII bullet-a-thon is rooted in fact but comes on like pulp fiction in its first reels, hitting secret-mission story beats old enough to have served in the big war. As freedom fighters Jan (Jamie Dornan) and Josef (Cillian Murphy) skulk about 1942 Prague, cooking up a plan to assassinate the powerful Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, they face the usual suspense-building Hollywood silliness.

3090d ago

Written and directed by Sean Ellis, “Anthropoid,” despite a title that to some might seem to promise a “Predator”-style sci-fi thriller, is in fact a historical drama based, as they like to say, on true events.

3090d ago

Dornan and Cillian Murphy star as two real-life Czech resistance fighters — but a fascinating real-life story doesn’t guarantee an interesting movie.

3090d ago

Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan headline this drama about Operation Anthropoid, which targeted Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Holocaust.

3090d ago

A bad movie with a good title.

3090d ago

A bad movie with a good title.

3090d ago

A bad movie with a good title.

3090d ago

A bad movie with a good title.

3090d ago