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Movie Review: #Anthropoid

Anthropoid is both a great character drama and a violent, bloody siege film. Review by Matt Cummings Among the chief complaints I have about Hollywood is their desire to modify a historical tale to make it either more pleasing or more dramatic. Adding new characters, or even changing the ending is like telling us the sky is really red or that Captain Kirk wears a blue shirt. Luckily, Director Sean Ellis's drama Anthropoid falls into none of the pitfalls of other Hollywood demands, turning in at once a great character drama and a terse action siege pic. As the shadow of WWII sweeps over Europe, resistance cells throughout the continent struggle to keep Hitler's armies at bay. For agents Kubis (Cillain Murphy) and Gabcik (Jamie Dornan), the war has taken on new importance: they've been sent back to their home of Czechoslovakia to assassinate none other than SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the architect behind the Final Solution. The job will be difficult, esp...