Saturday, February 02, 2019

When the lizards sleep

WWII, former athlete, baseball player Moe Berg has been assigned to locate - possibly assassinate - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and principal scientist in the Nazi German nuclear weapon project. Paul Rudd does alright as the secretive agent as does the rest of the famed cast (Paul Giamatti, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Strong, Jeff Daniels, Guy Pearce), but unfortunately the movie looks like bad TV drama.

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More twists than a barrel of pretzels

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