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5.0 out of 5 stars
TRUE - TRUER THAN WE WANT TO BELIEVE, May 9, 2003
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The person from Seattle, WA must have been sleeping during the film and if he does not believe these things happen he lives in a fantasy world. The following reviews says it all.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Passionate true account of journalist turned Nazi-Hunter., March 11, 2000
Based on the true story of Yaron Svoray, an Israeli freelancereporter living in the US. "The Infiltrator" recounts Svoray'sinfiltration of Nazi-sympathizers in Germany and beyond.
Oliver Platt plays Svoray, and does a good job in a very serious role. But Svoray's self-imposed mission, with the cooperation and support of the Wiesenthal Center is a Bunyonesques task, and, he is somewhat ill-equipped. If the film initially is to show us how direct exposure to the atrocities of Nazism might fuel unbridled fire within a person, Jewish or otherwise, then it fails in act one.
It's exposition regarding the state of Nazism today, is important, somewhat startling, and much more dramatic. That a Jewish reporter could infiltrate this infra-structure is somewhat unbelievable, but it serves to validate Svoray's passion.
All in all, the film struggles in no-man's land between documentary and thriller, battling to fill time between real life events. Curiously, actor Arliss Howard takes a major role as an Israeli agent-he will go on to play Mossad operative Peter Malkin in the bio-pic `The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996)".
Svoray's story is compelling, sadly the film gives us a less than satisfying conclusion. A worthwhile watch, nonetheless. END
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Great movie, wrong choice for main character., July 25, 2003
Based on a true story, Yaron Svoray (Oliver Platt) an Israeli freelance journalist goes to Germany to write an article about the rising Neo Nazi movement. While visiting a Turkish refugee camp a gang of skinheads attack. When the police arrive, he is mistakenly arrested which gives the skinheads the impression that he is a sympathiser for the Nazi cause. I can't see this part as being believable. It's one thing to try and "hang out" with the skinheads but it's very, very unlikely that some new guy is ever going to be taken to meet people who are important to the cause. Yaron sees the opportunity and slowly infiltrates the group. He is appalled and disgusted by what he sees, but he's determined to dig deeper.
I found Oliver Platt to be a terrible choice for this movie. He's sloppy looking and rather annoying.
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