Shining Through
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Movie Reviews of Shining Through
Movie Review: Shining Through - Great Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Loved the movie! It wasn't true to the novel but that didn't matter; both were excellent.Movie Review: Old time Hollywood
Summary: 5 Stars
this was a great trip down memory lane. When actors actually acted!Movie Review: Purchased for elderly friend
Summary: 5 Stars
She likes it. For the price it was a deal to make someone happy.Movie Review: Fun Spy Thriller, Full of Twists and Turns
Summary: 4 Stars
"Shining Through" shines with its stars, Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith, as well as beautiful location, fantastic cinematography, direction and script. The opening scene shows a older Linda Voss (Melanie Griffith) giving a WWII Spy story to the BBC. The film pans back to a young Linda growing up in New York with a German Jewish father (who teaches her the language) and an Irish mother. Linda uses her smarts to get a job as secretary in 1940 New York City. She is savvy and soon suspects her boss (Michael Douglas) is a spy. When America enters WWII, his key contact and operative in Berlin is killed. Linda has Jewish relatives in Germany she wants to help, and also feels the need to be part of finding information on the German bomb research site. It is a new technology that puts bombs on rockets, and the USA wants it destroyed before it is put into operation. Linda convinces her boss she can help fill the position, although he is very worried the Germans will find out about her Jewish background. She begs him to let her go undercover and become a secret agent. This was the one part where I smiled - Linda bakes a strudel to show her boss the German's will love her cooking and accept her as a fantastic cook. She comes to Michael Douglas and begs him to believe in her as well as her German cooking. However klutzy, the scene worked. He eventually lets her go over to Germany as a secret agent. It is a very interesting time and the movie captures the Germany in a surreal time. Throughout the movie, there are many twists and turns as Linda uses her smarts to learn about her relatives and get the information on the rocket bomb development site.
Linda's tale of her adventure in Nazi Germany is just good story-telling and overall fun, well worth the watch - if you like good old-fashioned spy thrillers.
Movie Review: So bad it's good
Summary: 4 Stars
Wow! Taste my struddle! What a movie! This one must be seen to be believed. Never mind the side-splitting performance Melanie Griffith delivers, just try and figure out why she's hiding microfilm in frozen herring that is being shipped from Berlin (A land-locked city) to Norway (Fishing capital of Europe). And then, when she drops the microfilm right in front of a Gestopo agent, she simply covers it with her foot until he loses interest and goes away! By this time tears were running down my cheek!
And then there's unilingual Michael Douglas racing to her rescue, traveling through Nazi Germany with a bandaid around his neck and a sign that reads, "Wounded soldier, can't speak". I guess that if they asked him to write something in German he could have just cramped up and shrugged. But fear not, he emegres in the end, none the worse for wear, even after being shot in the back, repeatedly, at point blank range with a German Mauser.
It just gets better and better. If you can watch this one and not howl with laughter then, as one character says to Melanie Griffith, "Mein Gott, you've got guts!".