From NetFlix:

Six decades after World War II, Jewish octogenarian Maria Altmann begins a quest to reclaim the artwork confiscated from her family by the Nazis — including a famed Gustav Klimt masterpiece.

One of my son’s favorite paintings is indeed Gustav Klimt’s “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I”. Personally most films involving good guys versus bad guys tend to get me “riled up” and adds a lot of suspense to my watching. Much of the film is true BUT! you must read the Wikipedia article which exposes some historical inaccuracies in the film. There you will note that Hubertus Czernin did most of the essential research and that he began that research before he discovered that his father had been a Nazi (who was executed by the Nazis as a traitor). Be sure to stay watching at the end of the film in order to read the follow-up pieces of historical information.

If you like thrillers, you might try “The English Assassin” by Daniel Silva. His books have an anti-Nazi mission. This particular novel is the second in the series featuring the character Gabriel Allon. Here the theme is an exposé of Switzerland as one of the major hiding places for art confiscated by the Nazi regime. In fact, at least the first three novels in the series center on some aspect of government duplicity in Nazi crimes. Austrian ugliness features heavily in one of these novels.

In this case story is almost everything. Of course, Helen Mirren is a marvelous actor. Ryan Reynolds, in my humble opinion, trades on his good looks but in reality is not much of an actor.

For you stargazers out there, look for a lot of cameo appearances: Elizabeth McGovern (Cora Crawley in “Downton Abbey”) is a judge; Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister in “Game of Thrones”) is Ryan Reynold’s boss in a law firm; Jonathan Pryce (High Sparrow in “Game of Thrones”) plays Chief Justice Rehnquist.

Not so much for the acting, and despite a few maudlin sequences, the story for me was so compelling that I will call this film a DO NOT MISS!