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MGM's "Operation Finale", recently released in America, is heading exclusively to Netflix around the globe (excluding USA) on October 3rd. The film, by Chris Weitz ("About a Boy", "The Twilight Saga: New Moon"), is a retelling of the hunt and subsequent trial of Adolph Eichmann, the architect of Adolph Hitler’s "Final Solution". Ben Kingsley plays Eichmann with Oscar…
“Operation Finale”: The True Story of the Holocaust Head Honcho Heist
In an era when the word "Nazi" is being overused as an insult to the point of meaninglessness and being cherished as a badge of honor by warped minds with zero sense of morality or history, perhaps it's a wise time to return to one of the classic Hollywood subgenres of yore: the Nazi-huntin' adventure flick. Operation Finale could have taken the crowd-pleasing shoot-'em-up route and very few who matter would've complained or been surprised with a mainstream director at the helm like Chris Weitz, whose credits include The Golden Compass, the second Twilight, and the original American Pie. The results are surprisingly low-key, mostly faithful to the original event, and curiously devoid of either bullets or accurately sickening Holocaust violence...which makes sense given that Eichmann wasn't caught till 1960. […]