Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action-thriller focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys - seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 - possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind's greatest achievements.
This is easily the best war related movie I've ever seen with pretty much no war related violence. I've never been one to care about the arts and what not but this movie was done in such a way that they managed to make me care. The camaraderie between the group of soldiers was very apparant from the get go and entertaining throughout. They managed to make you laugh through som pretty serious material and you were definitely effected by their losses as well. It was awesome to finally see Bill Murray outside of the "artistic comedy" realm. I wish he would go back to making the movies that made him so big.
I would definitely recommend people checking this movie out. Like I said - I've never been one for the arts or a history buff for that matter, but this movie made me very interested in both.
