way way way too long

Rating: 5/10 (6 January 2006)

Parts of this Movie were great, part terribly boring. I was put off by all the killing, but because I had no real connection to any of the characters. It was lost on me. It was like watching the news. There are deaths every day, but without a personal connection, empathy was all I could muster. I think Eric Bana did a good job with what he was giving, but was actually sad I went to the theatre to see it. I would have enjoyed it better at home on DVD, so I could pause at some point to PEE. If this were a docu-drama by some first timer, it would have been o.k. But fell way short of my expectations. I wasn't old enough to witness the actual events, or hear about them on T.V. The first 15 minutes or so, I had absolutely no idea what was going on. The heart of this movie could have been completed in a 30 second p.s.a. Definitely check it out on video, it is a movie worth watching. Hopefully the DVD will include some documentaries on what happened. I wasn't alive for WWll either, but would watch Schindler's list over and over again. This movie left me a little cold.