STATEMENT, THE
Released: December 12, 2003
Michael Caine stars as a former Nazi executioner who becomes a target of hit men and Police investigators. Norman Jewison returns to the director's chair after 1999's "The Hurricane" with a quasi-thriller with a few thrills but mainly a lot of dialogue scenes. But it's Caine that is what is worth watching here. Plagued by forty years of guilt, he can be a hitman with no effort yet has difficulties with the guilt of his war crimes from WW2. While not the bust out thriller it was advertised as, it fits in with the type of storytelling Robert Duvall was attempting in his own "Assassination Tango". Also starring Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Northam and Matt Craven.
120 Minutes
Sony Pictures Classics/Sony