ib011f9545i Review of Shining Through

Shining Through (1992)

always liked this film,I understand the hate but disagree.

[7/10 · 7 September 2020]

I am a huge spy/war film fan and am especially interested in ones made since the 1970s. I could talk about the many historical errors in this but what would be the point. This is a beautiful looking spy/war film with good acting from the 2 leads. Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffiths play an American spy chief and his secretary. Liam Neeson plays a nazi general,as usual he spends most of the film with his shirt off. If I have to be critical I have to say the script is a rather poor. The plot charges along and is unrealistic but every war film is I think. Other reviewers on here say this is Hollywood rubbish but while it is an American backed production it was filmed at Pinewood in the UK and in Berlin. Some of the negative comments focus on the amateur style of American intelligence shown in the film. But in the real world the USA were learners in the intelligence sphere and learned from the British