Did this really need to be made?

Rating: 4/10 (2 January 2009)

There have been so many movies made about the Holocaust and WW2 in general that most of the stories are being retold over and over. Sometimes a great one comes along as with Polanski's The Pianist, directed by a man who was actually in the Krakow getto and lived through it. Defiance on the other hand comes across like a TV movie of the week full of second rate acting and bad dialog. Liev Schreiber is hammy and overacting his way through this and Daniel Craig is all over the place and comes off kind of strange. Of course we have all seen the typical Jews who somehow go from normal every day people to helpless hapless morons who can't even wipe their own noses. One of my biggest pet peeves is the language. Why would a group of people all from the same area all go from subtitles to English and back over and over again. I know that some Jews in this area spoke Yiddish, but not all did and it would be assumed that they did all know Russian.
All in all an OK movie but OK movies should be about romance or comedy not something as serious as this. The ending is laughable - RAMBO JEWS from Hell! Plus the history is wrong in a lot of places and Ampicillin was not used until 1961.