Operation Finale

israeli spies go undercover in 1960s argentina to bring herr eichmann to justice. is it me or has ben kingsley been playing the same age for 40 years? well acted, pretty cinematography at times, and sometimes very tensely-paced, i think this film suffers from trying to do too much. it seems like it would succeed better if it just picked one aspect and focused on it. it could be a gutsy movie about spycraft and a daring plan to root out nazism. or it could be a philosophical drama about people finding themselves in complicated moral dilemmas, and about if it's ever even possible to achieve read more

A group of Israeli agents organizes and executes the abduction of Adolf Eichmann from Argentina in order to get him under trial in Jerusalem, but one of them has a history of being unable to control his anger. In spite of the talents involved, a heavy-handed misfire that plays as the ideal companion piece to two similarly mediocre recent films telling other parts of the same story, such as The People vs. Fritz Bauer and The Eichmann Show. Eichmann's landmark 1961 trial was widely documented on film and watching even some of the footage offers a more chilling statement than any dramatic read more