Half a century after “The Sound of Music,’’ Christopher Plummer confronts Nazi ho🐼rrors again in Atom Egoyan’s preposterous thriller, which squanders a terrific performance by the Oscar-winning actor.
💞Plummer’s 90-year-old Zev suffers from severe dementia. But Max (fellow Oscar winner Martin Landau), a wheelchair-bound friend in Zev’s New York nursing home, still enlists Zev to track down four men with the same name. Erstwhile Nazi hunter Max believes one of them was a concentration camp commander who slaughtered Zev’s family when he and Max were both imprisoned in Auschwitz.
The mission improbable — to execute the Nazi monster, even though Zev needs to repeatedly read a letter from Max to remind Zev who he is — takes the 90-year-old across the country, as well as in and out of Canada (with a loaded Glock, no less). Plummer is deeply affecting, even while navi💎gating plot holes you could drive a𝓰 16-wheeler through.