Conspiracy

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

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.

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.

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.

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 found it a very good, dry, uncomfortable and necessary film. It does not need camps, gunfire or explicit images of extermination to be chilling. Its strength lies precisely in the opposite: a group of well-dressed men, sitting in a mansion, eating, smoking and calmly discussing how to organize the murder of millions of people. That is what impresses most. There are no monsters with monster faces. There are bureaucrats, soldiers, lawyers,... - Full Review

Very well made movie, but... who do we empathize with here? Why did this even need to be made?