And who will die trying to?
A very believable premise -- a Christoph Waltz imitator chases our brave French heroine around France during World War 2 because he believes a diamond she's rumored to have will cure him of a fatal disease.
She's shepherded around by her dad, a loving fellow with a horrible accent, who gets her to his uncle, a revered but troubled Frenchman with a strong English accent. Meanwhile a young, brilliant German orphan grows up and gets purloined by dastardly Nazis for his talent with radios.
Each cliché ridden segment (fortunately only three before the finale) ends with a cliffhanger reminiscent of the silent films satirized in Dudley Do-Right cartoons and done better by the folk from Dallas.
The leads are ok, as is Hugh Lawrie, the Christoph Waltz imitator is as good as you might want a Christoph Waltz imitator to be, and the supporting cast is fine. The longer this adaptation lingers, however, the more damage to Mark Ruffalo's career it will do.
A very believable premise -- a Christoph Waltz imitator chases our brave French heroine around France during World War 2 because he believes a diamond she's rumored to have will cure him of a fatal disease.
She's shepherded around by her dad, a loving fellow with a horrible accent, who gets her to his uncle, a revered but troubled Frenchman with a strong English accent. Meanwhile a young, brilliant German orphan grows up and gets purloined by dastardly Nazis for his talent with radios.
Each cliché ridden segment (fortunately only three before the finale) ends with a cliffhanger reminiscent of the silent films satirized in Dudley Do-Right cartoons and done better by the folk from Dallas.
The leads are ok, as is Hugh Lawrie, the Christoph Waltz imitator is as good as you might want a Christoph Waltz imitator to be, and the supporting cast is fine. The longer this adaptation lingers, however, the more damage to Mark Ruffalo's career it will do.
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