"The Exception" is aptly named as this war-time-romance-cum-espionage yarn is very much the exception to the rule as to what we might have expected in our multiplexes in 2016. This is definitely a thoroughly old-fashioned film that wouldn't have been out of place in the 1940's albeit without the full-frontal nudity.
The setting is the home of the former Kaiser Wilhelm II, (a superb Christopher Plummer), where Captain Brandt, (Jai Courtney), has been posted, supposedly to protect the former Kaiser but really to spy on him for the Third Reich. There's also a British spy, (Lily James), in the household and it's not long before James and Courtney are banging about in the servant's quarters.
It's totally far-fetched, of course but it's got a good script and one that's not without humor and the performances are first-rate, (the cast also includes Janet McTeer. Ben Daniels and, as Himmler, an excellent Eddie Marsan). It's not the kind of film that was ever likely to win Oscars nor would it appeal to the Marvel crowd but it's very entertaining and certainly worth seeing.
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