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The Catcher Was a Spy
During World War II, Nazis asked the help of a German scientist, Werner Heisenberg, in attempt to build an atomic bomb. Office of Strategic Services of USA tasked a man called Moe Berg to stop making this bomb. Moe is major league baseball player but he has special properties, he speaks nine languages and is a regular guest on a popular TV quiz show, with a perfect hobby of keeping secrets.
5 January 1969, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
February 21, 1975 in Prague, Czechoslovakia
27 September 1965, New York City, New York, USA
1 August 1942, La Spezia, Liguria, Italy
19 February 1955, Athens, Georgia, USA
July 23, 1985 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
2 March 1955, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
5 February 1948, Wharfedale, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
13 August 1985, Milan, Italy
28 December 1981, New York City, New York, USA
June 22, 2018
If you like this kind of standard wartime folktale, The Catcher Was a Spy is at the very least an acceptable watch.
June 22, 2018
This moderately intriguing thriller tends to further trivialize the remarkable story of its enigmatic subject.
June 22, 2018
Well-made spy thriller has some war violence, language.
June 24, 2018
The Catcher Was a Spy is an imperfect examination of a curiously complicated figure in American history.
June 22, 2018
Like deserting the movie somewhere between subversive and derivative, the filmmakers struggle to show Berg both as an average bum and as a brainy badass.
June 22, 2018
The movie is well-crafted, but it doesn't have the fullness you'd expect in a movie with so much believe-it-or-not weirdness. It feels more like a nifty anecdote.
June 24, 2018
The Catcher Was a Spy has every element needed for a gripping espionage thriller, but sadly falls flat with its placid direction.
June 24, 2018
I wish I liked it more.
June 22, 2018
Boring is the last word you should use for a sports-hero-turned-spy story like this; it's the only one that comes to mind after you've seen the film.
June 22, 2018
If it wasn't a true story, it would be ridiculous. But the problem with Ben Lewin's film isn't the plausibility of the storyline, it's the execution of the plot, which comes off like a stiff noir rather than a crackling thriller.
June 22, 2018
A much more pallid experience than this eminently juicy subject deserves.
June 22, 2018
Handsome cinematography fails to disguise the low production value, and constant cross-cutting between strategy meetings and the mission itself make both parts of the sandwich feel moldy.
