In 1945, the powers of the Allied forces joined together to stage the Nuremberg trials, an international miliary tribunal to charge the surviving Nazi leaders with war crimes, specifically the extermination of six million jews in concentration camps. Nuremberg hopes to use history as a lesson for our times. The trials center on Hermann Goring, Nazi Germany's most powerful leader after Hitler. Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley is assigned as prison psychiatrist to Goring and his fellow prisoners - presumably to uncover man's darkest impulses. Russell Crowe makes a powerful Goring, Rami Malek a wily opponent. The excellent Michael Shannon adds dignity as Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson. Nuremberg is one of those "inspired by " stories. Unfortunately the script throws an excessive batch of soap, sentiment, and cliches --- so much that often the movie feeling unbelievable. I wish the writers had trusted their material.
