An Honest Review

Rating: 5/10 (26 March 2017)

Well, it's great for a TV movie.
As an historian I am NOT here to argue for historical accuracy. I am here to be entertained. Historically speaking, Defiance did it's job by making people that are curious about what happened look it up.
So long as it's not full on propaganda, that is really all Hollywood needs to do, tease enough to get people interested. Do that and, at least from my POV, you've contributed to education.
Now, what their real job is, is to entertain.
It feels like a made for TV movie of the week sort of reboot of "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" set in WWII.
And to make it oh so much better it ends abruptly. Almost like you are moving along on the free way and have to slam on your breaks when traffic instantly stops out of no where sort of abruptly.
Which almost fits the movie, given that it has most of the entertainment value of your morning commute.
Like I said, I don't care about historical accuracy, but add a few more details to what happened and maybe they could have flushed out an actual story instead of a collection of scenes.
For World War II movies, you can do better.