The only drawback is that the resemblance between young and old is entirely missing, a fatal flaw when a film is told in cross-cuts between past and present. Vogel give performances that cannot be praised highly enough. Tom Wilkinson and Martin Csokas as old and young Stephan Ciaran Hinds and Sam Worthington as old and young David and Jesper Christensen as Dr. If you can get beyond the casting problems involved, the story is taut with suspense but told at a rather leisurely pace. Mirren does a fine job as the mature Rachel and her final scenes with the man she has been hunting down is staged realistically with gut-wrenching violence. She emerges later on into the Helen Mirren image, which is not quite credible in my opinion. This is partly due to the fact that Rachel (Jessica Chastain) gives the most impressive performance in the film and is someone who immediately involves you in the story. Other than the script problems, it must be said that the acting is all on a high level, and the story is particularly engaging during the earlier 1967 sequences.
Added to this is an even more problematic factor: the younger and older counterparts don't look a bit alike, so keeping track of them by character names can keep a viewer in a distracted frame of mind. Hunting down an ex-Nazi surgeon who has committed war crimes always makes for an interesting story idea.but in this case, there are too many flaws to make the film wholly successful.The plot of THE DEBT is rather enigmatic and a bit confusing because of the technique of cutting back and forth between past and present. Set in the near future when artificial organs can be. Other than the script problems, it must be said that the acting is all on a high level, and the story is particularly engaging during the earlier 1967 sequences. Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal the Surgeon of Birkenau in a secret. With Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber. The plot of THE DEBT is rather enigmatic and a bit confusing because of the technique of cutting back and forth between past and present. Reviewed by Neil Doyle 6 / 10 Some riveting moments but the casting of principal characters leads to confusion. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team's mission was accomplished - or was it? The suspense builds in and across two different time periods, with startling action and surprising revelations.
All three have been venerated for decades by their country because of the mission that they undertook back in 1965, when the trio (portrayed, respectively, by Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, and Sam Worthington) tracked down Nazi war criminal Vogel (Jesper Christensen) in East Berlin. The espionage thriller begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Helen Mirren) and Stefan (Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Ciarán Hinds).
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