Good R

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Good
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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

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Entertainment Reviews:

Rotten32%

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Total Count: 71

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 41,572
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 Full Review
indieWire
Aug 8, 2009
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. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Apr 17, 2009
Viggo Mortensen, in the tiny but worthy GOOD, does what may be his most fascinating acting. -- Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly
Jan 16, 2009
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. Full Review
Daily Express (UK)
Apr 21, 2009
Rating: 2/5 -- A strong cast and good starting material doesn't manage to save this unsuccessful adaptation.
Empire Magazine
Apr 17, 2009
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. Full Review
Financial Times
Apr 17, 2009
Rating: 2.5/5 -- Not for the first time, great theatre makes for a merely adequate film. Full Review
Film4
Apr 17, 2009

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.

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  • UPC: 030306707693
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