Very good and definitely a text book classic but it tries to be too much of a history documentary rather than a film, and so any film elements become overlooked or cliché.

Rating: 7/10 (10 October 2012)

This film is an obvious classic, it pretty much wrote the textbook of how to make a meaningful film, especially about a true event. Amazing in its historic scenes of violence and awkward love that seemed to be deemed inappropriate at this point in history, portrayed well.
Only problem for me was the setting the scene of the main story took far to long and by the middle you felt there should have been at least some plot development where there had been little. My second criticism was of Schindler to have him break down in tears at the end was completely against his character, yes you could see he had learnt to love the jews along the way but it was too much to have him break down, only to one shot later be completely fine, it just seemed odd.
A well portrayed story with too much extra context of the time put in to provoke audience feelings, the story itself would have been portrayed much better in half the time! Unless the point of the film was to simulate the length of the was as well as the struggle.
Very good and definitely a text book classic but it tries to be too much of a history documentary rather than a film, and so any film elements become overlooked or cliché.