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The Monuments Men

Play trailer Poster for The Monuments Men PG-13 Released Feb 7, 2014 1h 58m History Drama War Play Trailer Watchlist
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During World War II, the Nazis steal countless pieces of art and hide them away. Some over-the-hill art scholars, historians, architects and other experts form a unit to retrieve as many of the stolen masterpieces as possible. The mission becomes even more urgent when the team learns about Hitler's "Nero Decree," which orders destruction of the artworks if the Third Reich falls. Caught in a race against time, the men risk their lives to protect some of mankind's greatest achievements.
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Its intentions are noble and its cast is impressive, but neither can compensate for The Monuments Men's stiffly nostalgic tone and curiously slack narrative.

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Wendy Ide The Times (UK) The monumental star power behind this amiable but rather soft-boiled war film goes some way towards papering over the narrative cracks. Feb 5, 2024 Full Review Kate Muir The Times (UK) George Clooney's simplistic wartime art heist movie staggers between parody and sincerity, failing at both. Jan 2, 2018 Full Review Jason Bailey Flavorwire If you've ever doubted how thoroughly a poor score can wreck an otherwise perfectly acceptable motion picture, get thee to 'Monuments Men.' Jun 18, 2016 Full Review JD Duran InSession Film The Monuments Men is incredibly disappointing, not just because it involves great actors, but because this story is actually really great and deserves a better adaptation than what we see here. Rated: C- Aug 12, 2024 Full Review Emiliano Basile EscribiendoCine The comedic tone, in the best M.A.S.H. (1972) series fashion, is gratifying and lightens the solemn burden of the not-so-subtle messages. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 7/10 Mar 1, 2024 Full Review Danielle Solzman Solzy at the Movies The Monuments Men puts the spotlight on a group of heroes tasked with saving stolen art but the film's mixed tone prevents it from being a better film. Rated: 3.5/5 Jan 9, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Blu B It's BARELY passable. The editing isn't good. It feels like multiple completely different stories. Damons side plot with Blanchett feels like a completely seperate film. Than it starts dividing the group up into differnt duos and it feels like stuff just happens bouncing around between them. To it's credit it does start to finally stop that towards the end in the last 30 minutes or so but it's a slog to get there. Everything else is ok enough. This has a light hearted feel to it the entire time and the humor isn't bad. But everyone just sort of blends in, the direction is just alright, and the subject matter while unique is just not made very interesting at all. This should've been an adventure type flick. But honestly if you wanted to be faithful to the source material than probably a mini series would've been more fitting for something like this. There just isn't a lot of action and it's just them finding art in little mini subplots that don't really add up to anything. While a great story I just don't see how this was fitting for a film. Skip This and read up on it instead. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 06/21/25 Full Review Jo J After traveling to Belgium and seeing the magnificent art in the cathedrals of Bruges and Ghent, I wanted to see this movie about how they were saved from Hitler. This fascinating, inspiring story should have made a great movie; however, it really dragged and I dozed off. The worst part was at the end as they don’t really show much of the beautiful art that was rescued. Disappointing. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 06/09/25 Full Review Rhonda L The movie covers a very small, but valuable Group of men who saved the world’s art History, in part, from Complete destruction. I think everyone can gain knowledge and respect from watching the film. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/13/25 Full Review Shane O Really really boring. Telling a story that doesn’t need to be told. After an hour and a bit of it going nowhere I decided I didn’t want to waist any more time on it so I turned it off Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/25 Full Review Elias R A 2-hour ad for the US, with a timeline that doesn’t even make sense: the bombardment of Monte Cassino occurred long after the events depicted, completely undermining the plot. The romance is painfully unnecessary and poorly executed. It’s obvious Clooney was aiming for an Oscar by cramming the film with clichés, but the result is a movie with no real message. Do yourself a favor and skip this one. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/03/25 Full Review Brad M Not terrible, Just boring. The cast couldn't save it. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 11/07/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis During World War II, the Nazis steal countless pieces of art and hide them away. Some over-the-hill art scholars, historians, architects and other experts form a unit to retrieve as many of the stolen masterpieces as possible. The mission becomes even more urgent when the team learns about Hitler's "Nero Decree," which orders destruction of the artworks if the Third Reich falls. Caught in a race against time, the men risk their lives to protect some of mankind's greatest achievements.
Director
George Clooney
Producer
Grant Heslov, George Clooney
Screenwriter
George Clooney, Grant Heslov
Distributor
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co
Smoke House
Rating
PG-13 (Some Images of War Violence|Historical Smoking)
Genre
History, Drama, War
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 7, 2014, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
May 6, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA)
$78.0M
Runtime
1h 58m
Sound Mix
Datasat, SDDS, Dolby Digital
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