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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: John Wrathall
Directed by: Vicente Amorim
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 31, 2008
Running Time: 96 minutes, Color
Origin: UK | Germany
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker, Mark Strong, Steven Mackintosh, and Gemma Jones
A German literature professor in the 1930s, John 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 of nationalism and prosperity. Yet with Halder’s change in fortune, his seemingly inconsequential decisions potentially jeopardize the people in his life with devastating effects. (THINKFilms)
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What The Critics Said
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Good has a stagy fustiness, but it's worth seeing for Mortensen, who makes this study of a "good German" look creepily contemporary.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett
Paced deliberately in a way that reinforces the tragedy of evil flourishing when good men do nothing, Good may find boxoffice returns slow to build but the film's aim is true and patient audiences will be well rewarded.
Read Full Review >NPR Bob Mondello
Good demonstrates the surprising power of character flaws in drama. How else to explain that the portrayal of a good man who does nothing in Good should prove more dramatically compelling than the stories in "Valkyrie" and "Defiance" of good men who did good?
Read Full Review >Film Threat Scott Mendelson
An interesting idea, thoughtfully acted and visually intriguing. However, it is nearly undone by a lead character that fails to represent the general idea that the film is allegedly about.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
The banality of evil has met its match in the banality of Good, a Holocaust parable that barely registers a pulse.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Good contributes very little to a conundrum that has occupied historians and psychologists for half a century.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
It's an old-fashioned hoke-fest, in which the otherness of Germany is connoted by having everyone speak with a British accent.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Viggo Mortensen looks the part but never brings it home with great conviction or passion. I never believed in the character and that greatly diminished the film's ability to argue its ethical case.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Though the film opens with an intriguing burnished look, it bogs down about halfway through with talkiness and uneven pacing.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey
Regrettably, the long-delayed adaptation from director Vicente Amorim and screenwriter John Wrathall gets crushed by the weight of trying to be something more; it's really just the story of a rather ordinary but disappointing man. The filmmakers reach for metaphor and allegory, but it comes at the expense of an emotional connection.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
An uncharacteristically stiff Mortensen can't break free from the clichés that constrain his character, who feels more like a symbol than a real person.
Read Full Review >Variety Dennis Harvey
Considering its theme and setting, there's something very wrong with a Good that seems merely competent, uninspired and a bit old-hat.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Schickel
Inept works like Good, which remains, like most such works, on the anecdotal fringe of the problem.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
As a film, it's overly tidy, and the surreal concentration-camp climax gave at least one viewer an inappropriate fit of giggles.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
In Good, the anemic screen adaptation of C. P. Taylor's play about a respectable "good German" who passively acquiesces to Hitler's agenda, Viggo Mortensen, miscast and ineptly directed by Vicente Amorim, plays John Halder, a liberal, mild-mannered literature professor who becomes a Nazi.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Ella Taylor
So incompetently mounted by Brazilian director Vicente Amorim (it takes a clumsy directorial hand to make Viggo Mortensen come on like Sesame Street's Mr. Noodle) as to be utterly incoherent.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 4.8 (out of 10) based on 12 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
April gave it a10:
Flawless performance, great acting. Intriguing, authentic movie.
Edourad D. gave it a10:
This film told me a lot about myself and our world. Subtle and affecting.