After eleven years, something of an anti-climax

Rating: Null/10 (15 June 2004)

My significant other brought home Schindler's List on DVD the other day. I'd never seen it. I'd wanted to see it during its time at the box office, but never got around to it. I thought, after eleven years, it was about time I did.
I'll be brief. I was a little underwhelmed. Perhaps I'd forgotten for a moment that it was a Spielberg film and not a war documentary. Perhaps I've seen too many war movies since its 1993 release that I expected something a little more graphic than it was (bear in mind it was branded one of THE most graphic films of all time eleven years ago). Perhaps I'm desensitized to it all...
Yes, I think this is a film that everyone SHOULD see... if for no reason other than to be able to say, "Schindler's List? Yes, I've seen it. Wasn't it... (insert your own interpretation here)?" And believe me, the way you see it will be different to how others have seen it and will see it in future.
I'll leave the question of its historical accuracy to the historians. All I know was that I found Schindler's List, by and large, a bit tedious and a little anti-climactic, having built myself up over a decade for the "experience".
I was fourteen years old in 1993. Perhaps I should have seen it then. It might have impacted me differently (and a lot more strongly) to how little it impacted me in 2004.