Concept: During World War II in Nazi-occupied Holland, a Dutch banker conceives a scheme to finance the Resistance (based on a true story).

• A top-notch effort with high production values and solid performances.
• An unusual perspective that differentiates this movies from others about World War II: a banking Nazi Resistance film.
• A tribute to a person who had done so much during the war but had not been given due recognition until relatively recently.
• The movie involves a byzantine plan to move and change funds, something that was way too complicated for me to understand despite the film’s best efforts. The plan had to be complicated in order to avoid detection by the Nazi, but it’s the kind of thing that’s very difficult to illustrate in a film (unless you’re doing some type of animated explanation like they do in documentaries, which would have been completely off for this movie). The banking scheme was never tedious but it was sure confusing.
• Viewed on an Optoma HD28DSE projector, 92” screen, Netflix on Roku. Looked great on my projector screen, except that nagging issue that seems to come up in every Netflix movie on my Roku—motion judder in which it looks like a second of the movie was cut out (for example, someone is walking, and suddenly you see that person a few steps ahead). Happens at least 3 to 4 times with every movie, just with the combination of Netflix and Roku. I’ve given up on trying to fix it, and I’m almost used to it, almost.
• Not for kids.

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