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‘Operation Napoleon’ Review: Icy Nazi Thriller Proves Some Things Should Stay Buried

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Michael Nordine author Few cinematic traditions are more enduring than thinking up new and inventive ways to beat up Nazis.

From “Inglourious Basterds” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark” to “Dead Snow” and “Sisu,” such projects run the gamut: prestige pictures, blockbusters, low-rent genre fare and everything in between.

Icelandic helmer Óskar Thór Axelsson’s “Operation Napoleon,” an adaptation of the bestseller by Arnaldur Indriðason, is the latest offshoot of that storied subgenre: the alt-history thriller that imagines the long-lasting effects of a heretofore untold Third Reich conspiracy.

With such first-act intrigue as a shadowy CIA official (Iain Glen, best known as Ser Jorah Mormont on “Game of Thrones”) instructing a subordinate to “initiate phase one” over the phone and the discovery of an intact Nazi aircraft on Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier in the present day, the film is sure to endear itself to a certain kind of genre-loving movie buff.

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