Suspenseful and scary as hell, this film is pulse-pounding. That human beings can actually think like this never fails to shock me, and yet I went through Mauthausen concentration camp in 1970 when I lived in Austria.
Watching this was a total waste of time, and I didn't make it to the end. The storyline is promising, actors not at all bad, but a movie is mad or broken by the way the story is told.
The fact that this is supposedly based on true events makes this an interesting movie to watch. However, as a thriller, there is nothing that could make it stand out from others.
Imperium stars Daniel Radcliffe as FBI agent Nate Foster with a talent for relating to people but works as a keep-to-himself type agent, preferring to spend his nights reading a book or listening to classical music alone in his home rather than going out.He catches the eye of and agent Zamparo (Toni Collette) who thinks that a recent theft of cesium might have ties to a white supremacist group.
With the topic this movie touches it could be so much more. Unfortunately this story doesn't work at all.
It is a good movie to watch and you can see Daniel Radcliffe acting amazingly in my opinion!
Pros: 1. The score brilliantly lathers the film in a constantly tense and nerve-wracking feel.
It is hard not to applaud Dan Radcliffe for trying to prove he is a versatile actor, and not just a cutie with a magic wand - but this isn't really it! His accent is very, very thin - as he portrays a young FBI agent infiltrating a gang of ruthless, murderous nazi supremacists.
Radcliffe is good, story is interesting and the movie is watchable. But the characterization of the characters is elementary, and the film adds nothing to what we already know about this topic.
