The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)

You won't be disappointed!

Best movie ever!

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Great film.. story tochEd my heart....AFTER ALL IT IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY

Good intentions. and a reasonable result. admirable job from Rosamunde Pike and Jason Clarke. and something missing. petr-varak review defines the basic problem - HHhH is a movie containing more two films more than two parts. the biography of Heydrich remains a sketch , correct but superficial, reminding a resume. and the second part seems be remind of ~Antropoid~, not a bad fact, useful to remind the events from Prague of 1943. but , having the same pieces and the same story and tools , it is difficult to ignore the similitudes, more inspired presented in the first film. remembering a docu-drama, it has the gift to be good start point for discover the life and the work of Reinhard Heydrich.

I didn't have high expectation from this movie. I have watched several documentaries and movies about the assassination of Heydrich. So I knew of all the details. My review is from that perspective. I really didn't want to see another movie about the assassination details...how many times can you see a movie about the same thing? ....I was pleasantly surprised, when at the beginning of the movie, it was about Heydrich the man, something I knew very little about...his journey to becoming a mass murderer. Jason Clarke did a wonderful job portraying Heydrich. You could see the evil in his cold eyes....but half way through the movie, it shifted back to a movie about the assassination and the Czech resistance. So no different than any other movie about the assassination...I wish they kept the assassination story out of the movie; it would have been much more powerful in my opinion. The way they started the movie was excellent and that should have been enough of a background to the rest of the movie about Heydrich the man. I also thought Rosamund Pike's role was completely unnecessary to the story. They could have made the movie without her as far as I'm concerned. They really don't need to have a female lead character in EVERY movie...that is a lazy approach and formula.

While the story of the assassination of Heydrich in Prague during World War II has been told in other movies up to the point that it invokes a sense of déjà vu this installment can be praised alone for it's grand opening scene with the solemn organ music. This movie sets itself apart from the rest by also showing it from the perspective of the German side and Heydrich' s wife played brilliantly by Rosamund Pike whose beauty you may admire all the same as you will loathe her beliefs. The atmosphere of an occupied city, as far as you can gauge from a free perspective seems authentic. The ruthlessness of Heydrich and the whole Nazi war machine should serve as a reminder of what will be the ultimate consequence of intolerance and blatant racism. The story will always remain captivating for its combination of heroism and tragedy, romance, heartbreak and betrayal even if we suspect that the romance has been emphasized for dramatic purposes. As far as historic accuracy can be trusted we learn that Heydrich's rise in the SS followed a disgraceful discharge from the German navy, together with some scene involving an officer of the Wehrmacht it supports the irritating idea that it was only the Nazi's and the SS that were the true fiends as if not the whole of Germany stood with their arms stretched. Nevertheless I enjoyed this movie quite much for it's raw approach to life and war, if you get to choose a version of the story told so often, this is a good one.