Russell Crowe was excellent in this movie as Herman Göring, but I’m not so convinced that Rami Malek was the best choice for the psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, who was engaged to assess the prisoners’ fitness to stand trial. I’m a bit wary of ‘based on a true story’ films and suspected that it had been manipulated for dramatic effect. But then I listened to the podcast Based on a True Story Episode 378 Nuremberg with Jack El-Hai, who wrote The Nazi and the Psychiatrist on which the film was based. The major difference was that Douglas Kelley wasn’t even there during the trial, having been promoted and returned back to America. Otherwise, the film was fairly faithful to the events.
My rating: 3/5 stars
The Resident Judge of Port Phillip 