A sleuthing mission that lacks drama

WHEN the future of Western civilisation is at stake, only the best will do. That's why George Clooney, armed with a compelling World War Two tale about looted art by the Nazis and the art experts tasked with tracking it down, recruited a team of Hollywood A-listers to make The Monuments Men. When George Clooney talks, studio bosses listen.

The film, directed by Clooney and based on a non-fiction book by Robert M Edsel titled The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure H…