Weekend Movie Forecast: Defiance Vs. Good

Also on the WWII Nazi tip is Good, which stars lefty heartthrob Viggo Mortensen as a mild-mannered literature professor who passively plays along with Hitler’s game and becomes a Nazi. Stephen Holden at the Times sounds pissed he had to sit through this "anemic" movie, and he says Mortensen is "miscast and ineptly directed by Vicente Amorim...The actors, especially Mr. Mortensen, speak in preposterously cultivated English accents that lend horrific events the tonal weight of a fracas at a tea party...This rickety film collapses completely in its revelatory scene at a concentration camp, where Halder finally faces the reality he has denied. As he wanders dazedly around the premises casting furtive glances, the prisoners and guards, played by healthy-looking actors, are clumsily arranged in stiff tableaus as though they were about to perform in a pageant. It is the single most unconvincing death-camp scene I have encountered in a film."