The Debt
2011
**
Director: John Madden
Cast: Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Jesper Christensen, Marton Csokas, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson
More than thirty years later, three former Mossad agents are still haunted by the memories of their mission in 1965 when they were sent to East Berlin to capture a wanted Nazi war criminal and bring him to justice in Israel. Following in the footsteps of Steven Spielberg's Munich, this remake of an Israeli film Ha-Hov (2007) deals with Israeli operatives who find themselves in the moral grey area between justice and revenge. John Madden's film, however, turns this thought-provoking scenario into a conventional thriller. There are a few exciting action set pieces, an uninteresting romantic triangle, an unrepentant one-dimensional villain, and a dreadful feelgood finale which leaves a bad aftertaste.
