Good R
Anything that makes people happy can't be bad can it?
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 27, 2019
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: MPI Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs & Jodie Whittaker | |
Performer: | Mark Strong, Steven Mackintosh, Gemma Jones, Ruth Gemmell, Annastasia Hille, Ralph Riach, Steven Elder & Kevin Doyle | |
Directed by | Vicente Amorim | |
Screenwriting by | John Wrathall | |
Composition by | Simon Lacey | |
Produced by | Miriam Segal | |
Director of Photography: | Andrew Dunn | |
Executive Production by | Simon Fawcett, Brian O'Shea & Peter Hampden |
Entertainment Reviews:
Bears a superficial resemblance to "The Conformist" and "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis," with their sense of dreary complacency, oppressively museum-like spaces, and curiously drab natural settings, but ultimately "Good" is less evocative
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indieWire
Rating: 2/5 --
We're gearing up for a clunker of a climax involving musically gifted interns at the world's sprucest concentration camp. Mortensen wears it well, but this feels like very old hat.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Viggo Mortensen, in the tiny but worthy GOOD, does what may be his most fascinating acting. -- Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/5 --
A tale illustrating the banality of evil is as timely as ever but the execution is heavy-handed and even with location filming and elaborate sets it still feels very theatrical.
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Daily Express (UK)
Rating: 2/5 --
A strong cast and good starting material doesn't manage to save this unsuccessful adaptation.
Empire Magazine
Rating: 1/5 --
It may have been a good stage play: people say it was. But its author, the late C.P. Taylor, was not around to stop it becoming a lousy film.
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Financial Times
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Not for the first time, great theatre makes for a merely adequate film.
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Film4
Product Description:
Cecil Philip Taylor’s GOOD was first brought to the stage in 1981, and has been revived on numerous occasions. This version of Taylor’s play stars Viggo Mortensen as John Halder, a German literary professor who struggles with his conscience as he becomes involved in the Third Reich during World War II. The film begins in the prewar era and establishes Halder's various relationships: his marriage is failing, there’s a new woman in his life, and his Jewish friend, Maurice (Jason Isaacs), frets about his future well-being. The Nazi party picks up on a novel Halder has written which encourages compassionate euthanasia, and he is ushered into their fold. A mixture of naiveté and cowardice prevents Halder from facing the life-threatening situation Maurice finds himself in, and director Vicente Amorim ups the tension considerably in the final third of the movie as the professor acts to save his friend.
The most powerful scenes in GOOD are acted out between Mortensen and Isaacs. The two actors expertly detail the deterioration in the relationship between the two men, with Mortensen looking perfectly uneasy in his Nazi uniform and Isaacs building up a righteous fury at his old friend’s blasé betrayal. Amorim adeptly deals with the euthanasia subplot by drawing a fine performance from Gemma Jones as Halder’s dying mother, particularly in a moving scene where she tries to commit suicide. Amorim manipulates sound throughout the film, causing Halder to witness characters suddenly bursting into song in a manner reminiscent of Dennis Potter’s THE SINGING DETECTIVE. With Mortensen once again proving what a brilliantly subtle actor he can be, GOOD is an affecting portrayal of a man whose weak will has superseded his best intentions and led him down an unspeakably dark path.
The most powerful scenes in GOOD are acted out between Mortensen and Isaacs. The two actors expertly detail the deterioration in the relationship between the two men, with Mortensen looking perfectly uneasy in his Nazi uniform and Isaacs building up a righteous fury at his old friend’s blasé betrayal. Amorim adeptly deals with the euthanasia subplot by drawing a fine performance from Gemma Jones as Halder’s dying mother, particularly in a moving scene where she tries to commit suicide. Amorim manipulates sound throughout the film, causing Halder to witness characters suddenly bursting into song in a manner reminiscent of Dennis Potter’s THE SINGING DETECTIVE. With Mortensen once again proving what a brilliantly subtle actor he can be, GOOD is an affecting portrayal of a man whose weak will has superseded his best intentions and led him down an unspeakably dark path.
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