- Sensibility: This story gets away with a lot of issues due to its basis in truth, but some of the relationships that are critical to the story are not well established enough to be sensible in the way they impact the story.
- Cinematography: Production design is solid. Interesting location choices and costuming bring light to a rather color-less, dimly lit film. Some rather rough CGI takes away from certain action packed moments. Finally, some
strange score and music choices also detract from what should be powerful moments in the film.
- Energy: The film labors getting to the highs, and these moments aren't worth the wait. There's too much back and forth and far too many sequences surrounding side characters who end up completely meaningless
to the primary events of the narrative.
- Narrative: Brilliant, little-known non-fiction story about an amazing individual doing unbelievable things in the face of great danger. However, the back and forth between the lecture and historical recreation unfortunately makes this film feel more like a lecture than like a story. The story could be told more succintly and perhaps more interestingly by either diving full into the documentary style narration or by embracing a full dramatic historical recreation.
- T-Points: The film received one bonus point for a sequence involving a bomb in a library/archive.
A film with an interesting story that is flawed in its communication. The lecture interplayed with historical dramatic recreation doesn't work effectively and makes the film longer and less interesting than it should be based on narrative alone.
Number of Watches: 1
