Nuremberg (2025) - Thoughts?

Russell Crowe was unexpectedly brilliant and the best part of the film. Everyone else was in a completely f****** different movie. What the hell was Rami Malek doing!? What were his directions? It's quite a melodramatic film but it's like they wanted Burn Gorman but couldn't get him so asked Malek to do his best Burn Gorman impression. One of the most inconsistent films I've ever seen. You can also just watch the actual Nuremberg trials. They're quite boring.

Three thoughts: Thematically it was wildly inconsistent, like the movie couldn't decide if it should be a dark comedy, courtroom drama or serious history drama. I cannot count how many times there is a scene where two characters says something along the lines, "it won't be a problem". Cut to next scene: we got a problem! XD LOL . The same movie shows actual concentration camp footages. I felt like the movie was written with the expectation the audience will be on their phones while watching the film, especially the courtoom scenes are filled with exposition via chatter among the courtroom audience, telling us what should we think: "He's got this!" "Oh boy, we're in trouble!" "What happens next?" Russel Crowe is great.

dude was absolutely unhinged in that interrogation scene, like you could see him trying to keep it together but just barely failing

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It felt like I was supposed to feel bad for the f****** Nazis based on how much of an absolute weirdo a****** Rami Malek’s character was???? And I don’t think that was actually supposed to happen it’s just that character was so distractingly centered in a story where they weren’t that relevant nor good at observing. Rami Malek’s acting was also atrocious and at no point did I buy a single bit of that performance because everything he does is over the top and out of place. Russell Crowe was surprisingly better than him in every scene.   And the build up to the trial following that Supreme Court Justice only for the real big “gotcha!” moment to come from the British prosecutor who we know literally nothing about at that point was baffling. Michael Shannon did not sell any of that being purpose at all because it doesn’t seem like it was in anyway. The whole climatic scene fell totally flat and amounted to nothing to instead build up this weird secretly German Jew character reveal that isn’t believable at all. 

I'm a native German speaker. The fact that they cast English natives in German roles killed the whole movie for me. Russell Crowe speaks decent German, but far from a native speaker. The surprise that the interpreter is a German jew? No he isn't, he's American. Not believable. I more knowledgeable people talk about the historic inaccuracies. And furthermore, it's hollywood overkill in a lot of scenes. Didn't like Rami Malek on this one either 

It was a weird movie. It took on a huge topic but couldn't really commit to one angle. It didn't necessarily fail at anything it tried to be, but it wasn't coherent from start to finish. I liked it, but I would have been very confused if I didn't already know the historical background.

Give me honest rating for this i want to watch this.

It’s by no means an awful movie but I found it mostly underwhelming and boring. Also I felt like the name of the book was a more honest representation of the plot. (I didn’t read it, but just saying). I gave it a 6.7/10. For me a 6/10 means “disappointing in some way. Sometimes but not always ‘mostly enjoyable’ ”

>The blonde guy who played the German-Jewish-American is so hot… I thought he was hot in White Lotus but he was way hotter in this one. Lol, he really reminds me of a beefier Michael Pitt.

Russell Crowe's performance was perfection.