Restrained, chilling performances by Branagh and Tucci as Heydrich and Eichmann, and Pierson does a good job making a movie out of people seated around a table talking. This film is compelling because it focuses on the meeting itself--agendas stated and hidden, power struggles and personal dynamics--and consequently anyone who has ever been in a meeting can identify with some of the characters' fears and goals, and therefore--since there are no good guys here--we become complicit in the evil.

It's a movie built around the brilliant performances from the high quality cast. Tucci and Firth in particular are sensational.

As fascinating as it is nauseating. You keep looking for a good guy to root for, and once you can't find one, the least bad guy, but to no avail. The almost real-time presentation makes it all the better.

An interesting part of Holocaust history that is shown far too little. However, this might have been one of the inspirations for Quentin Tarantino to do Inglourious Basterds, because this movie lacks what most Nazi-movies do: German actors. Instead, to give the American audience the European touch, they take British actors for Nazis... Besides all this, their performances are convincing.

Extremely effective docudrama of the Wannsee Conference, where the Final Solution--the extermination of Europe's Jews--was settled upon. A simple, unpretentious film (although the recreation of the era is extremely handsome), boasting a fine, restrained script by Loring Mandel, and an array of superb acting: Kenneth Branagh as an unsettlingly courteous Heydrich, Stanley Tucci as a cold, determined Eichmann, Colin Firth as the frustrated Dr. Stuckart, and Ian McNeice as the piggish Dr. Klopfer.

A really nicely written kammerspiel on the bizarrely (and chillingly) civil debate surrounding nazi Germany's "endlösnung". In short "12 Aryan Men"

This was somewhat uneasy to sit through. Haunting performances from Branagh and Tucci and an underrated Firth, one can only imagine what despicable people really came up with this.

Impressive - and very frightening - recreation of the Wannsee Conference. "The Jew Issue". *Shudder*

One has to wonder how much is speculation and interpretation. Certainly all the parts outside the conference room were fabricated, so perhaps some of the stuff inside the room was not from the official record either. Not that 100% accuracy is a requirement, or even necessarily advisable, but I like to know how much truth I'm getting. Interesting and chilling (naturally) with some restrained performances from Branagh and Tucci and all. Not remarkable as cinema, but compelling subject matter.

If you ever wondered what it was like to sit in a room with a bunch of Germans deciding on how they were going to eradicate all the Jews, this is for you! ...Not really for me though. You really have to be attentive to understand what is happening, its all dialogue. The performances didn't seem to be anything special to me. ..I dont know, it just wasn't that engaging or captivating.

A dramatic recreation of the Wannsee Conference where the Nazis address \"the Jew problem\" taken from the notes of the conference. The movie is impressive on many levels throughout and exposes the view to some of the humanity of fascism. Monsters didn't do it, people did. People, just like any other, in a group with an agenda.

I don't consider it cinematic brilliance but the performances are downright chilling to the both. The most terrifying part of the film, for me, is that it shows the participants that took part in the Wannsee Conference were actually humans, terrible bigots but humans non-the-less. And that makes it all the more terrifying for me. I have to note that Colin Firth's performance is absolutely fantastic.

My only objection against this movie is that Heydrich in this movie does not look much like himself in real life, which is actually not so much important.

Very much in the same vein as 12 Angry Men, this is a fascinating character study of the men who would be dubbed among the most evil in history. Particular mention has to go to Firth and Threlfall in the two most noticeable supporting roles, but really the whole thing gels together extremely well, made all the more involving by a near-perfect script and the gravity of the subject matter. An absolutely stellar film.