Quite surprisingly decent movie

Rating: 8/10 (27 May 2007)

It took me a long time before I actually finally decided to watch this movie. I read so, so many bad reviews about it, journalists making the worse statements about Spielberg's intentions, that yes it did affect my choice. However, being way too curious, i decided to at least give it a chance and make up my own opinion. And, I am very satisfied I did, since it is an absolutely decent movie. May be because I saw it in its original version with subtitles i cannot read (there were in Finnish) I might have missed some of them. But I got to confess I found the characters credible, the movie very acted. Thanks for picking up excellent actors, not the ones you endlessly see on the screen. It made the movie so credible. I did not really feel any hatred, although there must has been a great deal of it, and I think this was the best way to approach this problematic without falling into some kind of extremism. The characters happened to be quite human, and I guess this could have happened to any of us who might have a sense of idealism, try to revenge such an awful act. An eye for eye ideology that does not lead anybody anywhere. The French character was a bit unusual, however credible. I also like the fact that the actors did not hesitate to look "average", i.e. normal. Thanks for not falling in that trap of selling a product for its aestheticism. What I really appreciated is that it gave me the envy to read about these events. I guess a movie is supposed to make you think and trigger some kind of interest and raise questions, it succeeded. I believe i will watch it again out of curiosity. I recommend this to anybody. It is refreshing to see that movies are not just evolving around cheap actions brainless scripts where the characters look so good with their 6 packs! Finally a daring movie that disturbs the audience! Monsieur Spielberg, thanks for shaking our minds and trigger the little sens of "libre arbitre" that is left in this extremely minds-cloned society of ours!