unimpressed

Rating: 2/10 (11 April 2006)

I'm not normally one to comment in forums on these things, but after watching this film, then reading the site's user rating of 7.7/10, i felt the need to bring balance to the judgement of this film.
Firstly, the film is 164 minutes long, which for the content covered seems a little excessive. Perhaps Spielberg felt that an 'epic' was essential for increased chances of award nominations??? The accents are terrible!! I didn't believe the group of assassins were Israeli for one second. They would have been better off sticking with the usual American accents all-round, at least that's probably closer to what English speaking Israelis sound like today, yet perhaps not so much in the 70s.
At least it was easy to tell the goodies from the baddies, the baddies are the only ones with subtitles! There are plenty of fantastic bilingual European actors and i imagine, but can't comment for lack of knowledge, Israeli actors, who deserve more consideration for roles than is apparently given. I personally don't mind subtitles, especially when it adds to the credibility of a character.
Yeah, pretty unimpressed overall.