The Statement

Starring:Alan Bates, Michael Caine, Matt Craven, Christian Erickson, Frank Finlay, Dominic Gould, CiarÃ¡n Hinds, Peter Hudson, William Hutt, Noam Jenkins, Joseph Malerba, John Neville, Jeremy Northam, Charlotte Rampling, Colin Salmon, Malcolm Sinclair, Tilda Swinton, Peter Wight, David de Keyser
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

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Michael Caine's riveting performance is the best reason to see The Statement, a lopsided thriller with conspicuously noble intentions. In crafting a thematic counterpart to his Oscar®-winning script for The Pianist, screenwriter Ronald Harwood draws from another fact-based story set during World War II, adapting Brian Moore's captivating novel about an official French collaborator named Brossard (Caine) who executed seven Jews in 1944, under the Vichy regime of Nazi-occupied France, and eluded justice for decades thereafter. While a passionate French judge (Tilda Swinton) and army colonel (Jeremy Northam) pursue Brossard in 1992, director Norman Jewison smoothly executes a cat-and-mouse plot as Brossard hides in a series of right-wing Catholic sanctuaries. By introducing a conspiracy element not found in Moore's novel, Harwood and Jewison dilute an otherwise riveting story (based on the real-life war crimes of French Milice officer Paul Touvier), resulting in a contradictory portrayal of Caine's sympathetically penitent character. In a film that fails to clarify the maneuvering of its ultimate villains, it's a testament to Caine's skill that The Statement works as well as it does. Charlotte Rampling and the late Alan Bates appear in effective cameo roles. --Jeff Shannon

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The Statement.......2006-08-29

A 2004 thriller that has a distinctly 90s look to it. It was deliberate, since that's the setting, and there's nothing wrong with choosing a 90s look. I did the same with VIGILANTE JUSTICE. They needed to ensure their hero wasn't too old to run, I wanted cynicism tinged with innocence, and both stories would be very different with cell phones and the Internet.

Michael Caine plays a Frenchman who cooperated with the Vichy Government during WWII and killed some Jews, and he's running from that over 40 years later. This feels like a made-for-TV movie. It's a fairly straightforward thriller with gorgeous French scenery and a forgivable number of cliches, elevated just a tad by Caine's fine performance. If it's on your TV, tape it. If you find it in a DVD shop in China, go ahead and grab it. It's good for when you're feeling exhausted. The novel may be different, but I tend to doubt it.

Pick a side..........2006-07-25

This movie was entertaining. However it left me thinking:

Good versus evil?
Who is right and wrong?
How much trust can you have in your friends?

Overall a good couple of hours of entertainment.

Meh........2006-07-19

The Statement (Norman Jewison, 2004)

We'll start with the obligatory (pardon the pun) statement: The Statement, the film, is not as good as The Statement, the Brian Moore novel on which it is based. And while that tends to be true of Brian Moore adaptations, he does tend to get at least decent movies made of his novels (and every once in a while a true winner, like Black Robe); this one certainly qualifies as decent.

Michael Caine stars as Pierre Brossard, a former Vichy operative accused of killing seven Jews in 1944. He has been in hiding for the past forty years, but now two groups are after him-- one that wants him dead, and one that wants to keep him alive and pump him for information on the network that's been hiding him. The former group are operating outside the law; the latter are the law, headed up by Judge Anne-Marie Livi (Constantine's Tilda Swinton).

The action comes fast and furious, and Caine turns in a good, if not great, performance, with a competent supporting cast. This is familiar territory for Jewison, whose Rollerball thirty years ago was the same kind of guilty pleasure. It's a fun little flick, but do yourself a favor and read the book first. ***

Exceptional movie.......2006-01-08

Led by two exceptional actors. The time is today, and Michael Caine is an old man, one who served in WWII. He served on the wrong side, as a French collaborator with the Nazis, and he served up seven Jewish men to the firing squad, just for being Jewish. Since then, he has become a deeply devout and repentant Catholic, just trying to live out his days. Tilda Swinton is war crimes investigator, who will never let the atrocities be forgotten. She is determined to bring him to justice.

Don't be fooled by the simple premise. Others are determined to bring Caine's character to justice, too, with a bullet at close range. Caine, the repentant old man, kills two of the would-be killers - one wonders just how dedicated he is to that apparent life of peace, carrying handguns even when living in retreat in a monastery. Then, it turns out that the monastery and the Catholic church as a whole are more than just a retreat for him. He's just one of the strands in a tightly-woven shroud of silence. And, despite his mouthings of piety, he's not above petty cruelties and manipulations.

Swinton's relatively simple but driven character brings Caine's into sharp contrast. She's intense, blunt, and honest, with a gut-deep revulsion for the hypocrisy the seems to surround her. Nothing could be farther from Caine's character, who lives by lying, even to himself.

I can't agree with calling this movie a "thriller" or "cat and mouse game." It's too quiet and complex for easy tags. The interest comes not from the action, but from the cynical view of political power and the open question of just who the good guys are.

//wiredweird

The Statement.......2005-10-03

Outstanding flic. So good that I searched out through my local library a copy of the novel version by Brian Moore. The film follows it closely.

A bit off-putting is the fact that the movie is British-made with all British-English speaking actors - while the action for the story is set entirely in France.
All the actors, however, are excellent - in particular, Mr. Michael Caine.

This movie repays repeated watching.

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Customer Reviews:

The Statement.......2006-08-29

Pick a side..........2006-07-25

This movie was entertaining. However it left me thinking:

Good versus evil?
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How much trust can you have in your friends?

Overall a good couple of hours of entertainment.

Meh........2006-07-19

Exceptional movie.......2006-01-08

The Statement.......2005-10-03

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