Review – The Good German

Steven Soderbergh sets himself about the largely-unnecessary task of proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that he isn’t Carol Reed. Though this is clearly intended to have the same flavor of postwar intrigue as Reed’s classic The Third Man, it turns out to be at best a cheap, plastic reproduction that only vaguely resembles the real thing. George Clooney plays a journalist who swiftly finds himself in too deep while trying to unravel a murder mystery set against the backdrop of the Pottsdam conference. Mildly amusing