More preachy Speilbergesque tripe from Holland

Rating: 5/10 (9 June 2007)

Thank G-d for the Dutch having the moral authority to tell the world how to think and behave. What would we do without them? The movie is worth watching but the forced plot and Speilbergesque silly action parts and pandering get really tiresome (Speilberg was born in Holland so the comparison is not random). I am no historian but the idea of an organized Jewish/gentile Dutch resistance seems implausible to me (their unions agreed to strike to support the Normandy invasion but only if the Allies agreed to make up for the lost wages). Glossing over the starvation that occurred in 1945 makes the movie even more superficial (one scene with kids scraping food out of trashcans based on one very overplayed dutch propaganda film). What is interesting though is how the movie moves between at least 3 (maybe 4 or 5) languages with no subtitles in the version I saw. The plodding preachy forced plot is very typical of Dutch movies. If you are not Dutch or have not lived in Holland you will probably have a better opinion of the movie than I did.