The Debt

Drama, Intrigue
4 stars
Very good movie starring Helen Mirren as one of three Israeli spies sent into East Berlin in 1966 to capture a former Nazi surgeon who performed gruesome experiments on the death camp prisoners, a la Dr. Josef Mengele. It is a very good movie, though the previews had led me to believe there would be a lot of undercover espionage and sneaking around in East Berlin. Instead, the film spends more time with the trio and their prisoner in a safe house, waiting for safe transport back to Israel. Still a very good film; just different from what the previews led me to believe. Also, there is a dark secret that haunts the trio long after the mission ends. Jessica Chastain (The Help) costars as Mirren’s younger self. Very good movie.