The Statement

2003

Action / Drama / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 24% · 106 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 36% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 5782 5.8K

Director

Norman Jewison Photo
Norman Jewison

Top cast

Michael Caine Photo
Michael Caine as Pierre Brossard
Charlotte Rampling Photo
Charlotte Rampling as Nicole
Tilda Swinton Photo
Tilda Swinton as Annemarie Livi
Ciarán Hinds Photo
Ciarán Hinds as Pochon
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1.07 GB
1280*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 59 min
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2.2 GB
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English 5.1
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23.976 fps
1 hr 59 min
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1.07 GB
1280*714
English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 59 min
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English 5.1
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ma-cortes 6 / 10

Intriguing TV movie with all star cast who makes memorable performances

After France fell to Germany in 1940 , the Vichy regime was set up under Marshal Petain . In 1943 , the Vichy government created a military force called Milice to carry out the Nazi occupiers . When the war was over many of those involved were prosecuted for war crimes . Some get away . A few rose to power . Pierre Brossard ( Michael Caine ) committed crimes against humanity and collaborated with Nazis in WWII . Today Pierre follows hidden by priests of Catholic Church that sheltered him during fifty years and is being protected by a strange sect called The Chevaliers of St. Marie . But a judge ( Tilda Swinton ) and a colonel ( Jeremy Northam ) are investigating his past . Meanwhile , a mysterious murderous ( Matt Craven) is pursuing Pierre to kill him .This TV movie produced by Canadian television in association with BBC packs suspense , mystery , thrills , action and is quite entertaining . Jewison cast some largely known actors as Michael Caine , his wife well played by Charlote Rampling , the starring duo as Tilda Swinton and Jeremy Northam , and a remarkable support cast as Ciaran Hinds as Inspector Pochon , Alan Bates as Bertier , Frank Finlay as the Comissaire and several others . Atmospheric musical score by Norman Corbeil and appropriate cinematography by Kevin Jewison , director's son . The motion picture is professionally produced and directed by Norman Jewison . He is a prestigious and veteran filmmaker, his greatest film is of course Jesus Christ Superstar . He considers The Hurricane (1999) the last in a trilogy of racial bigotry movies he's realized, the first two being In the Heat of the Night (1967) and A Soldier's Story (1984).The film terminates with an epilogue based on real events , that says the following : ¨At 5:00 am , on June 29, 1944, in Rilleux -La-Pape, France, seven Jews were executed ¨. The movie is dedicated to those seven men and the 77.000 other French Jews who perished under German occupation and the Vichy regime .
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Reviewed by =G= 7 / 10

All Caine

Michael Caine carries "The Statement" on his back. In spite of an elegant cast, without him as the central character, this convoluted mess of a film wouldn't be worth watching. Telling of an aging French-Nazi war criminal who finds himself on the run and squeezed in the jaws of subterfuge, "The Statement" is too vague in its historical flashbacks, gives poor depth into its sundry characters, breaches realism with a bunch of Brits in France, never makes its agenda clear, and doesn't sort itself out well in the end...to mention just a few of the flaws. The result is a film with a lukewarm reception by critics and the public at large and little reason to watch save another excellent performance by Caine. In spite of all that, I quite enjoyed this flick. Go figure. (B-)

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