Easy Holocaust-watching

Rating: 6/10 (28 December 2002)

Oh my, this movie is so full of stereotypes and cliches that I won't even start listing them here.
How dare Spielberg making a movie for easy mass-consumption on such a delicate subject? Being from Germany I feel particularly offended by the way Jews and Germans are portrayed: Everything is like a person that never had dealt with any of these cultures in depth would imagine it from watching just another US movie on the Holocaust. That might be fine for a TV-series or soap opera, but is pretty poor for a movie of that caliber.
Not that I really expected anything but a streamlined feel-good movie by that director, but I find it very offensive to use such a subject just to finally get the Oscar. Disappointing!