Walk on Water
by Eytan Fox
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Actor: Carola Regnier, Caroline Peters, Gideon Shemer, Knut Berger, Lior AshkenaziDirector: Eytan Fox
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Subtitled); Arabic (Original Language); English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Hebrew (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Turkish (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-30
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Walk on Water
Movie Review: Bites more than it can chew
Summary: 2 Stars
It is refreshing to watch movies depicting things other than American suburbia and exploding cars, and speaking several languages with naturalness, and seeing actors move against truly urban and/or exotic backdrops.
Yes, I confess, I am one of those people who ravenously scour the BlockBuster and takes anything foreign that looks remotely promising.
But this movie severely tested my patience.
I can't decide whether it is that Lior Ashkenazi and Knut Berger are bad actors, or the plot simply forces them to act in such a stiff way, that they can't perform.
If this movie aims at encompassing the subjects of hatred, identity, homosexuality, war, and forgiveness, and then produce some sort of coherent message, it fails. Instead of a plot, we have characters engaging, more or less randomly, in sanctimonious exchanges that don't add up to much, followed by the occasional gratuitous cruelty.
Paradoxically, the less important the characters, the best the acting is. Gideon Shemer is good as the mild-mannered, avuncular secret service S.O.B. Axel's mother and father are also solid and give a credible performance. Even the short appearances of the rest of the Mossad staff are credible and to the point.
But as soon as Eyal (Ashklenazi) embarks in some statement about the Holocaust or the Palestinians, or Axel (Berger) tries so hard to play the liberal-assumed-homosexual-that-can-be-friends-with-an-hetero, the movie stops dead.
At some point the movie is so trite that becomes annoying.
-Axel's Grandpa is a Nazi war criminal. Gee, I wonder to what Argentine country he fled.
-Eyal has to come, reluctantly, to Germany. Gee, I wonder what is going to happen in the subway when their friends cross a group of skinheads.
-Axel and Eyal have to bath together. Gee, I wonder about what semitic ritual operation they will talk about (all in a safe, heterosexual way, of course).
I don't continue because I risk to ruin whatever little plot the movie has. But you get the idea.
Summary of Walk on Water
An unusual psychological spy thriller, Walk on Water follows Israeli agent Eyal (Lior Ashkenazi, from the superb romance Late Marriage) as he tries to learn from a German brother and sister (Knut Berger, Push and Pull, and Caroline Peters, Schone Frauen) whether or not their grandfather, a Nazi commander, is still alive--but his growing friendship with the pair forces him to grapple with his wife's suicide only months before. Walk on Water grapples with racial prejudice and homophobia without once seeming preachy; surprisingly, the spy storyline introduces these issues naturally, as Eyal's hostility towards Arabs and his blithe view of Nazi war criminals are central to his character. Ashkenazi is charismatic and subtle; his bedroom eyes and understated smolder make him something of an Israeli Clive Owen. Don't buy Walk on Water expecting James Bond spectacle, but the excellent performances, intelligent script, and quiet tension will draw you into this thoughtful and emotionally nuanced movie. In English, with a few subtitled scenes in Hebrew and German. --Bret FetzerThis enthralling award-winning film by internationally-acclaimed director Eytan Fox explores the motives, strengths, and, ultimately, the humanity of an Israeli assassin sent to rectify a wrong committed five decades earlier. Eyal is a top assassin in the Israeli secret service. He has killed terrorists before, but this time he is sent to eliminate an aging former Nazi war criminal. During his mission, Eyal meets his target's granddaughter and grandson, who inadvertently help him uncover his own troubled history and face his demons, while they discover the ugly truth their family has hidden from them for decades. What began as a straightforward mission, has suddenly escalated in intensity and complexity - thrusting three very different people into a thrilling triangle of murder, friendship and fate.
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