In 1944, the U.S. government asked a multilingual Jewish baseball player to travel through enemy lines in Italy, make his way to Zurich and assassinate the head of Germany's atomic-bomb program. This isn't a man-on-a-mission sequel to Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds — it's a true story. (Sorta. Important asterisks go here.) Ben Lewin's The Catcher Was a Spy casts Paul Rudd as that athlete, Moe Berg, and surrounds him with a surprisingly top-shelf supporting cast. Bad buzz out of its Sundance premiere is puzzling, as this is a very enjoyable middle-of-the-road adventure, especially for moviegoers willing to see just about anything...
- 2/1/2018
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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