The Debt

A remake of the 2007 Israeli film directed by Assaf Bernstein. This movie is filmed with many flashback sequences that retell the story of three Mossad Intelligence agents sent into Germany to kidnap a surgeon who performed horrible experiments on Jews during WWII. The plan is to smuggle him out of Germany and into Isreal so he can finally be put on trial for his heinous crimes, but somewhere between timing and human emotion, the plan goes awry. Although this is a political film, the three character development is a huge part of the film. It was quite disappointing when the three agents lost their captive, but the biggest disappointment of the film was the horrible damage caused to all three of the agents' lives due to their actions. It's one of those films that makes you want to rewind it back to the beginning and on watching it a second time, hope that the characters make the decisions that they should have all along, but they never do. The attraction and emotions between Jessica Chastain's character and Sam Worthington's were more than believable, which made this movie mildly depressing to watch. I really enjoyed this film for several different reasons, but mostly because of its emphasis on the past and the inability to go back in time to change events that we wish we could.