The Statement

What was I thinking? Oh yea how much I like Michael Caine and what an awesome British cast (Alan Bates, Tilda Swinton, Ciaran Hinds, Frank Finlay, Jeremy Northam, Edward Petherbridge). Except they are in a film that takes place in France playing French characters directed by an American. What were the producers thinking? Am I supposed to accept they are French because they take loving care to carve the fish at every meal? Way too many close-ups of fish by the way. The story is a basic thriller involving the Church covering up for a Nazi collaborator but the story gets no traction. We do however see lots of pretty places in France. Oh well, always love seeing Alan Bates no matter what the film is. R.I.P. Alan!
Favorite moment: Michael Caine crawling across a ladder linking two rooftops to evade the police in a coastal French town. Why? Because the possibility that Michael Caine might have fallen to his death during the filming of this scene is far more exciting than anything else that happens in this film.

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