The Debt is a good competent spy film directed by John Madden. No not that annoying football announcer with all of those football video games. (God if that guy actually directed this it would be the craziest movie, it would of been Brett Farve killing Nazis.) No this is the John Madden who gave us such classics like Shakespeare in Love and umm..... nothing else. The film stars Jessica Chastain, Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson, Jesper Christensen, Ciaran Hinds, and Marton Csokas.
The Debt is about three Mossad agents in 1966 said they completed a mission in capturing and killing a Nazi doctor. Come to the 1997 there is something wrong with what they are saying and is tearing them apart. The daughter of two of the agents has written a book about their account of what happen on their mission. She is very proud of here parents patriotism. This comes back to affect some set of choice they have to make about there situation.
First the complaints with the film is when its switching back in forth to the 60s to the 90s it has a problem with pacing. Which is sad because a film like this depends on suspense, and to make good suspense there needs to be good pacing. Some people have said the younger versions do not look like the older versions. I never had a problem with it, because the performances all around were great each two actors playing the character were both similar in how they emoted so that was not a problem for me.
The performance are all great. Jessica Chastain is continuing to have an incredible break-out year. Sam Worthington was someone who always came off kind of wooden in all of his films, but here he did a top notch job showing some emotional presence. Jesper Christensen as the Nazi doctor did a great job at being just a pure evil asshole. Helen Mirren, Ciaran Hinds, and Tom Wilkinson all do a great job like always. Madden's direction is good in a lot of scenes to create tension, but mainly this is an actors film. So above all I reccomend this film.
Rating = 82%
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