Good
4,854
Drama
John Halder (Mortensen) is a 'good' and decent individual with family problems: a neurotic wife, two demanding children and a mother suffering from senile dementia. A literary professor, Halder explores his personal circumstances in a novel advocating compassionate euthanasia. When the book is unexpectedly enlisted by powerful political figures in support of government propaganda, Halder finds his career rising in an optimistic current ... [+]
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"Anemic screen adaptation of C. P. Taylor’s play (...) Viggo Mortensen, miscast and ineptly directed by Vicente Amorim" | ||||
"Absorbing drama about a good man who is blind to the horrors of Germany's Nazi regime" | ||||
"Considering its theme and setting, there's something very wrong with a 'Good' that seems merely competent" | ||||
"The filmmakers reach for metaphor and allegory, but it comes at the expense of an emotional connection" | ||||
"Good has a stagy fustiness, but it's worth seeing for Mortensen, who makes this study of a 'good German' look creepily contemporary. He shows us the horror 
of ignorance." | ||||
"Good lacks character development and dimension. (...) Though the film opens with an intriguing burnished look, it bogs down about halfway through with talkiness and uneven pacing. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)." | ||||
"The banality of evil has met its match in the banality of 'Good', a Holocaust parable that barely registers a pulse." |
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