popcorn movie, meaning okay but not great

Rating: 6/10 (24 July 2009)

This is the first time I've noticed other people who've posted comments that have had the same general opinion about a movie.
Good but not great.
On to the review: Acting - The acting was generally pretty good. I believed in the East European accents that most of the actors faked. Daniel and Liv are very good actors and they held there own. But in my opinion it was the script and the direction that made the lines the actors spoke seem, forced.
It was sorta hard to care about or in other words become emotionally invested with the actors.
Everything else was mediocre e.g. Direction, DP, editing, etc.
For me, I truly believe the WWII Nazi, concentration camp, killing Jews, theme has been sooooo overplayed in America to the point its cliché'. Plus on top of that cliché is another cliché, the stealing from the rich to give to the poor Robin Hood cliché'.
I will say that the movie was good at exploring the morality of people who are hunted by the Nazi's. Many times in the movie the debate of ,"whom should we steal from to survive," came up, and this was good for the story.
I like Daniel Craig and that was the main reason for me seeing the movie. I gave it 6 stars, for a good story, for actors I wanted to see, for the moral twists and turns. I gave it bad marks for its cheese factor and obvious clichés'.
Its simply an okay/sorta good movie but it certainly its not great.