The Good German 2006 123movies

Watch: The Good German 2006 123movies, Full Movie Online – Berlin, July 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference and issued a captain’s uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who’s now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he’s assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena’s keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime: U.S. personnel are busy finding Nazis to bring to trial, the Russians and the Americans are looking for German rocket scientists, and Lena has her own secrets..
Plot: An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.
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Ratings:

	6.0/10 Votes: 25,342
	34% | RottenTomatoes
	49/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 257 Popularity: 10.162 | TMDB

Reviews:

Worth seeing, but I wish it were better than it is
Soderbergh is a director with a decent amount of guts but not a lot of talent. Here he attempts to make a classic Hollywood film, reminiscent of The Third Man and Casablanca, by mimicking, or at least trying to mimic, the classical style of cinematography, by scratching the negative, having the dialogue recorded on mono (I think), and having the actors deliver performances along the lines of the studio days. The gimmick honestly doesn’t work all that well. Lovers of classic films will notice how different the film-making is from that of the ’40s. How hazy the cinematography is compared to Casablanca or The Third Man (it looks like you’re watching a movie on a black and white television). Or how much more swearing and sexual content there is in the film. Yes, the gimmick is a weak one and somewhat detrimental to the rest of the film. Otherwise, it’s a pretty good mystery. Not a great one. The pacing lags in the middle, and the mystery only starts to make sense right near the end, when much of the audience has stopped caring. The film’s strongest asset is Cate Blanchett, who channels Marlene Dietrich. She is easily one of today’s best actresses, and the only cinematographic triumph of the film is the lighting of her face – she’s drop-dead beautiful. I’ll probably be hung by the nostalgists, but I’d take her – in both her acting skills and beauty – over the lead actresses of Casablanca and The Third Man. George Clooney is decent, but his character is fairly two-dimensional. He’s a pretty boring hero. I really liked Tobey Maguire, though. His character was much more interesting, and I wish he could have been in the movie more. I absolutely loved the climactic sequence, but the film continues on for too long after that. Blanchett’s big revelation at the end feels rather anticlimactic.

I know what Soderbergh is doing here. That doesn’t mean I have to like it.
The Good German is an experiment gone horribly, horribly wrong, like Frankenstein’s Monster or Crystal Pepsi. Director Stephen Soderbergh somehow got it into his head to mimic films from the 1940s. Not be inspired by them or pay homage to them, but literally imitate their look and sound and feel. I’m not sure that’s a good idea in the first place and then Soderbergh does it in such a self-conscious, grating and ponderous fashion that he creates a film that is, to all intents and purposes, unwatchable.

Jake Geismer (George Clooney) is a war correspondent sent to post-WWII Berlin to cover the Potsdam conference of Truman, Churchill and Stalin. It’s a good thing there were other reporters there because Jake completely blows off that historic event to instead get mixed up in a simple yet confusing mystery involving his older German lover Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett) and a rough-edged Army corporal named Tully (Tobey Maguire). Lena desperately wants to get out of Berlin and there are more than a few men willing to help her, some out of love and others for her help in keeping a secret. The unfocused story touches rather ham handedly on collective German guilt over the Holocaust, the first rumblings of the Cold War, the Nazi contribution to the U.S. missile program, life in the rubble of post-War Berlin and Jake Geismer being the biggest wuss in Europe. Seriously, Geismer gets his ass kicked so regularly it’s like a running gag, except this movie isn’t a comedy.

I wasn’t exaggerating when I described The Good German as a bad replica of a 1940s film. It’s in black-and-white and Soderbergh uses the same sort of camera work, lighting and stage blocking as that era. He incessantly blasts scenes with the same kind of melodramatic theme music as that time. The movie is littered with stock footage of post-War Germany. Soderbergh even uses 1940’s style editing techniques to segue from one scene to another. If that sort of overdrive nostalgia sounds like it might be neat, trust me. It’s not.

The problem is that all that effort is painfully purposeless. There’s no point at all to any of that cinematic affectation. It doesn’t lead anywhere or do anything to enhance the story. There’s no metacommentary of any sort at work here. It’s just a 21st century filmmaker apparently entertaining himself by regurgitating nearly 60 year old cinema. Imagine seeing modern NBA players trying to replicate on the court the way players shot, dribbled and passed back in the 1940s. It would look artificial and forced and out of sync. That’s a great description of The Good German.

Making matters worse, Soderbergh was apparently so caught up in his duplication efforts that he didn’t notice that his story meanders and stops making sense at a couple points. He was also oblivious to his three big stars giving atrocious performances. Tobey Maguire’s acting ranges from looking like he’s reading off cue cards to raging like a meth addict who just smoked some crank. George Clooney is essentially doing a time traveling version of Danny Ocean. And Cate Blanchett seems to be focusing all her energy into speaking two octaves lower than her normal voice.

It was a struggle to make it all the way through this movie. Like being stuck in a time warp where the seconds become minutes and the minutes become hours, the length of this film stretched out longer than the Pleistocene Era. I started to root for everyone to die in an anachronistic atomic explosion, just so this bleepin’ piece of crap would end.

One thing this film does prove is the old adage that when it comes to making movies, nobody knows nothing’. Soderbergh and Clooney have teamed up to do some excellent work and then they collaborate on this punishing waste of time and money.

Stay far away from The Good German.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 45 min (105 min)
Budget 32000000
Revenue 5914908
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Mystery, Romance
Director Steven Soderbergh
Writer Paul Attanasio, Joseph Kanon
Actors George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 5 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, SDDS, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL2, Panavision Normal Speed MKII Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor Digital Intermediates, Los Angeles (CA), USA (digital intermediate), Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints)
Film Length 2,855 m (Portugal, 35 mm), 2,952 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 500T 5218)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Spherical (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Kodak 2302)