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Anthropoid (2016)

★★★½ — Anthropoid (2016)

Sean Ellis, a British director better known for the quiet psychological thriller Metro Manila (2013), made a significant tonal shift with this World War Two resistance drama, shooting largely on location in Prague and drawing on the true story of Operation Anthropoid, the 1942 Allied mission to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most senior figures in the Nazi regime and a principal architect of the Holocaust. The film arrived at a moment of renewed popular interest in the Czech resistance, sharing some thematic territory with the more polished HHhH adaptation (released as The Man with the Iron Heart the following year). Cillian Murphy had already established serious dramatic credentials well before Peaky Blinder success, while Jamie Dornan was still largely associated with Fifty Shades of Grey at the time of release.

A-Z World Movie Tour Czechia (Czech Republic) Anthropoid is the tale of the incredible bravery of a small group of Czech resistance fighters in WW2 who set out to (and successfully) assassinated Reinhard Heyndrich who was the chief architect of the Nazi extermination of the Jews. It's a tale of two movies here. It's a 2 hour movie that could easily have just been 90 minutes. The first half of the movie is a VERY slow burn where you see them planning the assassination. The second half of the film is a paranoid, tense and very gripping tale of the aftermath. The acting is fantastic (especially from Cillian Murphy) and the cinematography, sound effects.

Rating: ★★★½ | Year: 2016 | Watched: 2025-06-14

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