The Monuments Men takes place in WWII near the very end of the war. George Stout (George Clooney) realizes that the art that the Germans have been stealing, is more than just artwork. He wants to devise a group of professionals come with him into the front lines to salvage any piece of art that they can find. This group is made up of James Granger (Matt Damon), Richard Campbell (Bill Murray), Walter Garfield (John Goodman) along with multiple other men. When they go on this mission, they quickly realize how much harder this is than any normal mission. They get pushed through denial, loss, and a burden on everybody's shoulders. The only way they made it through was with each other's help. In the end they made a dramatic difference in what the outcome of the war could have been that most people don't even realize.
I would rate this movie a 3.5 / 5 or a 4 / 5 if anything. This movie was definitely intriguing but that is about all it really was. The were multiple entertaining scenes of comedy and humor by the main actors that really kept the movie going but almost complete minimal action. I realize that this is based on a true story but they would have gotten into some combat related trouble that had been going on. The second thing that kept the movie moving is the actors of the movie. Through the whole movie was the highly recognizable actor, George Clooney, as the main charactor, George Stout. If George Clooney does anything good in movies, it would be leading a group of people, for example, the Oceans movie series. Other actors include the famous Matt Damon as James Granger, Bill Murray as Richard Campbell, and John Goodman as Walter Garfield all following the great George Clooney. Lastly, is the emotional aspect of the movie. Throughout the whole movie, there are encounters with multiple allied troops that find their cause a lost cause, but the movie then brings you right back up when ever they find heaps of art that haven't been destroyed yet. In the beginning of the movie, George says that your lives are not worth pieces of art. As the movie progresses, those words quickly change in everybody's eyes as more monuments men die trying to protect those pieces of art and quickly becomes personal to the monuments men... and to the audience of the movie. In the end, this movie isn't made for action, or for your pure entertainment (while it tries very hard to), but it is to remember who these men were and the art that they fought for that nobody else would.
The Monuments Men (from the movie) The Monuments Men (from WWII)
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Excellent job!