ANTHROPOID Trailer: Cillian Murphy Tries to Assassinate Some Nazis

Aside from supporting roles in Transcendence and In the Heart of the Sea, Cillian Murphy has been absent from theaters for a little while. He's been spending his time mixing it up on TV as the lead in Peaky Blinders (which I still haven't gotten around to watching), but now he's making the jump back to the big screen in a WWII thriller with a terrible title: Anthropoid. It's named after a real life operation to assassinate a Nazi general, and even if we haven't seen this exact story in a movie before, I have to say this still looks like a pretty boilerplate, by-the-numbers thriller. Let us know what you think in the comments below.

Anthropoid hits theaters on August 12, 2016.

ANTHROPOID is based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the World War II mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich. The Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler, Heydrich was the main architect behind the Final Solution and the leader of occupying Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia whose reign of terror prompted Allied soldiers (Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan) to hatch a top-secret mission that would change the face of Europe forever.