The acting was good, the lighting was good, the sound was good, and the locations were good, but the story, the script, was horrible. And you can't make a good movie without a good script. There is no through-line. There is very little lead up to certain scenes so that you understand what the scene is about where it is and what's going on. It's just like "Bonhoeffer appears here and says this and he appears there and says that." You don't really get to know anyone in the film, including Bonhoeffer. And about 20 or 25 minutes into the film, when you feel like only moments ago Hitler had invaded Poland, you're suddenly three years into the war and you have no concept of that time passing and what's happened to anyone in Germany except Bonhoeffer and a few friends - and even then not much - and you hear nothing of significance about the death camps. In good movies there is a through-line and there's effort made to explain certain situations to the viewer through conversation between the actors who might be saying something like we've got to meet on Friday at the church because we've got to do this or that and then maybe a bit more build up and you show people getting to the meeting in a clandestine fashion, maybe a close call with the Gestapo, then there's the meeting so you know what it's about, the risks, people took, etc. All we know is that they were working against Hitler and if you know anything about Bonhoeffer and the history of the resistance in Germany, you know they were working against Hitler already. We need details about what's going on and something that grabs us emotionally. Of course, millions of Jews being exterminated is emotional but it's dealt with very little in this movie. I would not recommend this movie.
Review of Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace
