Good but certainly not one of the greatest movies of all time.

Rating: 7/10 (25 February 2014)

I am well aware of the hype surrounding this film but up until now I just never had watched it. Now many people will call me crazy when I say this but I just found it to be a good movie but certainly not one of the greatest films of all time.
While the film had a sense of heightened emotion my heart did not ache for the victims portrayed. Don't get me wrong it disgusts me what happened and upon seeing other movies on the subject matter and visiting concentration camps personally nothing disgusts me more but I just couldn't relate to the victims in Schindler's List. Maybe it was because there was no individual character to feel for but instead these crimes were being committed against nameless faces.
Also some of the scenes came off as slightly comical (whether they mean't to do that or not) but it made it hard to take this movie seriously. Maybe my expectations were too high, especially for a movie made in the early nineties, but if you are going to claim it is one of the greatest movies of all time then it better be able to back up that claim.