Remixed The Debt Trailer: What a Drag It Is Getting Old

Remember the good old days when we hunted Nazi war criminals and looked like Sam Worthington? The Debt laments those times too. Three youngsters (Jessica Chastain, Martin Csokas and Worthington) track down a WWII baddie in the 1960s, and thirty years later their older selves (Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciarán Hinds) realize the job isn't over. This is an updated version of a trailer we saw last July (the movie was lost in the Miramax sale), but hey! New graphics and more Mirren antics!

Those inter-titles are so bodacious and sinister. Like maybe The Debt is a technological thriller series on AMC. Breaking Bergen Belsen!

As such, Helen Mirren still seems harried, Sam Worthington still seems boring, and Jessica Chastain is fiercer than most people crossing into Soviet-controlled East Berlin. It's actually bizarre to make a glossy thriller about capturing the very real Josef Mengele, the "surgeon of Birkenau," but since he died in the late '70s, I assume the modern-day component of The Debt is less historical. I'd have a better guess except the trailer just insists the older cast will be "dealing with" what they've done. There's an added dimension of real-life parallelism here after Mirren's terrible episode of SNL; I'm still "dealing with it," personally.

Verdict: Stylish, but hollow.

· 'The Debt' Trailer [/Film]