Few days ago I watched Swiss Army Man, also starring Daniel Redcliffe and I still think that that role was perfectly made for him. Now, I can also say the same thing about this.

Idealistic FBI agent Nate Foster goes undercover to take down a radical white supremacy terrorist group. The up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of sticking to a new identity while maintaining his real principles as he navigates the dangerous underworld of white supremacy.

The story is based on the real events and now, I’m actually getting interested in all that Neo-Nazism thing. I know that my dad likes reading about that a lot, about World War 2 and I was never interested in it much, but this movie made me think about some history events. The movie is almost 2 hours long and it has enough stuff to make you interesting, although it suffers from a bad pacing. At the beginning of the movie, we meet our main character Nate, he is a normal FBI agent, never did something special. After some time, he got chosen to be an undercover agent to uncover a Neo-Nazi organization and everything is happening pretty fast. After 30 minutes everything will change, the story will start slowing down. I was watching this movie pretty tired of the whole day and I’m still not sure what destroyed me more, the pace or the day. Then I decided to watch the movie again and I found out that the pace is the real problem.

The acting in this movie is great. Daniel Radcliffe (Nate Foster) did great. I think that he is just getting into the act. His last few movies (Swiss Army Man and Imperium) are great and I hope to see more great movies starring him. This role really fits him, although I could imagine some other actors acting the same role. His character development is great. At the beginning, he is a normal FBI agent, but after he accepts his role in the whole play, he becomes someone else. After some time you’ll think that he really became the Neo-Nazi organisation member. Toni Collette (Angela Zamparo) did great as well. At the beginning, she is good and everything, but after some time, when she gets comfortable around Nate, she becomes the real joker.

The atmosphere is something that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Through the whole movie, you’ll think that something will happen, but at the end, nothing really happens, but you are still interested and you want more. The soundtrack is good. Most of the movie is without anything, any music, but when there is a movie, it really fits the atmosphere. The editing is good. There are pretty cool sequences at the beginning of the movie. I haven’t noticed any unsynchronized shots, which is worth mentioning.

At the end, Imperium is a great thriller that will interest you not only for the story showed in the movie, but for the whole World War 2 Nazi and Neo-Nazi thing.

My rating: 8/10