The Mauritanian2021
The Mauritanian (2021)
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Critic Consensus: The Mauritanian takes a frustratingly generic approach to a real-life story that might have been inspirational in other hands, but Tahar Rahim's performance elevates the uneven material.
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as Mohamedou Ould Slahi
as Nancy Hollander
as Stuart Couch
as Teri Duncan
as Poulson
as Neil Buckland
as Ramzi
as Lawyer
as WSJ Journalist
as Female Guard
as Guard
as Kent
as Kim Couch
as Pentagon Guard
as Pentagon Guard
as Judge Robertson
as Colonel Bill Seidel
as Camp India Minder
as Sergeant Sands
as Guard
as Legion Bartender
as FBH Clerk
as General Geoffrey Mandel
as Bob the Spy
as Cathy
as Emmanuel
as Whit Cobb
as Wafa
as Steve/Green Mask Man
as Moroccan Translator/Marseille
as Lawyer on Plane
as District Court of Columbia Judge
as Self
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Filmed largely indoors and in often claustrophobic spaces, the movie isn't always subtle, but its impact is felt particularly in the scenes featuring Rahim. His powerful performance is supported respectfully by Foster, Cumberbatch and Woodley.
The subject is charismatic in a way that the film is not. But he is VERY charismatic, and it's his performance that sees this through.
The real-life story is enraging, and it's fun to see Benedict Cumberbatch's morally conflicted military prosecutor lock horns with Foster's icy human rights lawyer.
Few viewers will find themselves unengaged during The Mauritanian, but there are too many middlebrow beats either side of the jarring chords.
Macdonald and his producers and writers wanted too much... The result? A bland smattering of each that teases us with the possibility of complex roles.
The film's power lies in its direct confrontation with the ideology that underpinned it all... The Mauritanian is notable, too, for how much of its perspective is actually granted to Salahi.
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