Excellent!!! Better then Excellent!!!

Rating: 10/10 (19 January 2009)

As an intern from the Netherlands, I'm taking full advantage of the fact that movies are out sooner here then in the Netherlands. I've seen a lot of movies so far, this one being the last one I saw. And I must say, It was Excellent. People were clapping at the end, I'd say it's no more then logic. Edward Zwick definitely left his calling card with this one. Well I guess he already did with Blood Diamond and the Last Samurai.
The movie is about 3 Jewish brothers that flee into the Belorussian woods after their father and others in their village get brutally executed by the Nazi's. In the woods, they meet other Jews fleeing from the Nazi's. Together they start building a camp in the woods, hidden from the Nazi's, hoping that some day, they don't have to run anymore and can fight back.
For once, a WOII movie that doesn't give you the feeling that it's all about a bunch of American Rambo's that slaughter Germans left and right. This one gives an honest view of both sides. Losing faith and loved ones and the side of Jews, and the agony some traitors and Germans have by doing their horrible job for the fuhrer. Of course the Germans are the bad guys, but in this movie you can see that evil is not only on the German side.
I would also like to say that Daniel Craig is a great actor. I didn't know what to think about James Bond being in a WOII movie, but he took his role perfectly. Compliments also for Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell.
I give this movie a 10/10, maybe I'm a little too enthusiastic about it, but I have never seen anyone applaud during/after a movie. And they were right about this one.
See it!! You won't be sorry.