The 2006 movie Steven Soderbergh considers his most underrated: “The idea isn’t simple enough”

Steven Soderbergh has named his 2006 noir, The Good German, as the most underrated film in his work, saying it was not fully understood. He considers it creatively unified and successful on its own terms, though its complicated premise failed to attract enough viewers to recoup its investment.

Starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett, the film follows an American journalist investigating a murder in post-war Berlin, where his former mistress is involved. It lost money at the box office, while the following year’s Ocean’s Thirteen became one of Soderbergh’s biggest commercial successes, earning almost $250 million in profit.