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C- |
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D+ |
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B+ |
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D- |
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A- |
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Schindler's List meets Lost
by Shim O (movies profile)
Jan 24, 2009
14
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21 people found this review helpful
OMG, is there a new genre of holocaust movie with the Jewish superhero? Defiance made me think Spiderman on the Kibbutz. Daniel Craig, playing Indianna "Moishe" Jones is a WW2 Moses figure who helps shelter Polish Jews in the forest during the Nazi invasion. With his granite jaw and piercingly blue eyes, he's the most Germanic looking character in the movie. He teaches the Jews to shoot guns and kill Nazis, something I've not seen in holocaust films before. In the film's most contrived sequence, he leads "his people" through the forest marsh, the day before the Passover, no less, to the promised land. And during all this the crowd is explaining Jewish folklore to one another just so the gentiles in the audience will be sure to catch the imagery.
Sprinkled with cameos from everyone's favorite TV Jewish character actors the audience gets to peek into little snippets of the life and times of the prettier people.... the senior citizens seem to be background for letting us know it's really cold in the winter because they cough a lot during the snowy winter scenes.
Yes, it's an important story and I'm not trying to undermine the integrity of the people whose lives this film was based on... some of my own relatives were probably slaughtered in those villages. However, I'm not sure what fundamental message or story this director was trying to put across. |
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