This was a very powerful film!

Rating: 10/10 (2 December 2004)

This was a very powerful film! The performances were outstanding! I liked the way the cameras were used to pull away at certain moments, and also give us a close up view of the characters. I can't say enough about the performances, Spencer was superb, Lancaster's performance kept me on the edge of my seat and Maximilian Schell sent chills up my spine. This is a film everyone should see, because it shed some light inside the twisted minds of the Nazis.
The film is very relevant to the situation that America is currently in with the war in Iraq. We went to war because we thought that Saddam had WMD's, as Lancaster said in the movie, "we didn't know, because we didn't want to know." Some people in the Bush administration knew that Saddam didn't have WMD's and they stood by in silence, because they thought they were doing this for the "good of the country." Sounds familiar huh?