"The Debt" is an American remake of an Israeli film of the same name. It follows the hunt of a Nazi war criminal by a team of Mossad agents and the cover up following their failure to bring him back to Israel. Featured are Helen Mirren and Jessica Chastain as Rachel Singer in 1997 and 1965 respectively. The ensemble cast includes Sam Worthington, Ciarán Hinds, Marton Csokas, and Tom Wilkinson.After claiming to have killed 'The Surgeon of Birkenau' during a mission in East Berlin in 1965, Rachel Singer leads a life of a lie. Her daughter eventually writes a book about her mother's time in East Germany. Everyone believes her. Why shouldn't they? She and her team are national heroes. When one of her team members kills himself, Rachel finds out that her target from 1965 is living in the Ukraine in a psychiatric hospital. He is also going to leak the story of Singer's failed mission to the press. Rachel's past has come back to haunt her and she must finish what she started.
This movie, while being enjoyable, is also a tad slow. The pacing feels very off after the second act. Rachel is played fantastically by both Chastain and Mirren. However, it felt like Sam Worthington was disinterested the whole time he was on screen. Ciarán Hinds, in the same role as Worthington, is so much more interesting to watch and it really is a shame that he had such little screen time because I truly believe that Hinds is the most underrated actor in the industry.
Eventually everything catches up with us. Rachel found this out only after the pressure of keeping their secret had taken the life of one of her friends. You can't bury the bad and hope it stays dead. It will come back.
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