The Bielski Clan of the Cavebear

Rating: 6/10 (8 June 2014)

"He is a Jew?", asks a little boy now living in the woods amongst the Jews in the Polish forests. A valid question, as Daniel Craig stands out more by not fitting in. I'll blame that on the director and producer. But, where Craig is miscast, Liev Schreiber rules. His character reflects the antithesis of the stereotypical Jew we see hiding behind the leaders. Jews fighting back in some way feels nobler, than what we had in non-fighting, non-working intellectuals who couldn't find masculine in the books they were reading. We have one good offering of "Godfather-esque" editing when one of the brothers wed while another among a Russian brigade attacks a German convey in the snow. Great use of context, if the Russian attack was more vivid and the woods ceremony wan't so out of "Fiddler On The Roof". Our ending seems as improbable as Craig playing Moses, but since some of this actually happened, it was worth the first watch, but not the second.