You Dare Not Dislike This Mediocre Movie

Rating: 5/10 (22 November 2013)

One of those Movies that is Almost Impossible to Criticize because the Message is a High-Toned Moral Duality. There's Right and Wrong. What Side do you come down on? You have to Like this, Love or Leave it. There's no Middle Ground and that is the Problem.
Although the Middlebrow Film does Try to Present some Obligatory Defense of the Nazi Judges who are being Judged, there is Hardly a Doubt when the Movie Began or when it Ends what the Majority of Opinion will be.
It's such a Weighty Subject and the Philosophical, Legal, and Hindsight Lens that is put on the Thing is Better Served in Lengthy Scholarly Books and Serious Intellectual Debate. Despite the Fine Acting by all the Seasoned Pros, the Writing and the Direction of this Film really does Nothing More than Confirm a Non-Conflicting Court of Public Opinion whose "Verdict" is not Likely to be Persuaded Otherwise.
Just in Case there may be some Doubt, Parade out some Concentration Camp Atrocity Footage with Emaciated Bodies of Women and Children...Cased Closed. Now all Movie Goers and Home Theatre Watchers can feel Self-Righteous and Sleep Better. Ultimately the Film is a rather Mediocre, Middle-Class Stroking of a Self-Serving Public.