Sunday, May 26, 2013

Copenhagen (2002)

  This is one of the most boring movies I have ever watched.  Honestly, unless you are just a huge fan of character dramas, there is nothing for you here.

In 1941, Werner Heisenberg made a journey into occupied Denmark to visit his friend Niels Bohr.  Much speculation has been made of the nature of their conversation, which ended with Heisenberg abruptly leaving Copenhagen to return to Germany.

This is a movie based on a stage play by Michael Frayn that sees Heisenberg (Daniel Craig) meeting with Bohr (Stephen Rea) and his wife Margarethe (Francesca Annis) at their home both in 1941 and again in 1947.  There is some very basic discussion of physics, about what you would cover in a high school class, but mostly its about philosophy, nationalism, and humanism. 

Snoozefest.

This was so not my cuppa tea.  I like both the actors featured here but I found this movie to be stultifying.  Rob said his dad had recommended it so clearly there are people who liked it, I'm just not one of them.

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