Missed opportunity

Rating: 6/10 (24 December 2009)

World War II was a subject of countless movies. From ideological, propaganda rubbish to some of the best masterpieces ever made. If you decide to make a movie set in those times today, it is absolutely necessary to have a novel idea. This, quite well done and entertaining movie, doesn't have anything new to tell us. It is made in Hollywood mode, meaning thrills and turns and twists and not very much logic or character development. The horror of the war is barely touched upon, and even violence and death seem cleaned up not to disturb the modern viewer too much.It is a mystery to me how anybody can try to brings us back to those days of immense suffering and fail to touch us for a single moment. " The Black Book" is a mixture of brilliant technique and lack of things to say.