Very "spielbergian" movie - Steve at his usual...

Rating: Null/10 (16 June 1999)

Reading other comments I was surprised... Everybody calls it "the best Holocaust movie (somethimes even the best movie) ever made. Well, I believed this statements. But when I watched the film to the end I understood that, let´s be fair, that is Steven Spielberg, one of the most commercial directors of modern Hollywood, and everything he makes is considered to be brilliant - either it is "Jurassic Park", filled with plastic dinosaurs or black-and-white Holocaust film "Schindler´s List", which is considered (I don´t know, why) his masterpiese, and the best Holocaust movie ever made in HOLLYWOOD - remember that "Schindler's List" is a UNIVERSAL PICTURES AMBLIN ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTIONS. But "Schindler's List" is far not a masterpiece. It smells with Hollywood and has a happy end, oversentimental episoodes (In the end Schindler suddenly falls in tears and regrets he could not have saved more jews)... Although Spielberg in each interview keeps saying that he "had to change his usual style", but unfortunately he didn´t succeed in this. By the way, the last five years Spielberg seems to be very interested in the tragic moments of every nation - maybe because it is a very politically correct and successful production. After "Schindler's List" he made "Amistad" a boring and spielbergian saga about black slaves. Then - "Saving Private Ryan", the movie, which topic "touched" Spielberg no more than the topic of "Titanic" touched James Cameron. No, Spielberg just wanted to tell us that he is still the greatest director in the world, and that he is still able to shoot patriotic and touching films about americans saving the world. No doubt we can expect him to do features about the sufferings Chinese, Russian or Serbian people in order to win more Oscars and earn more money. So, please, watch this movie more attentively and you will understand what am I talking about.