A poor end to a great film

Rating: 8/10 (3 November 2001)

This is a powerful and important film. However, I thought the ending was an artistic letdown. Spielberg should have ended the movie 10 minutes earlier when the war was over and taken "Shane" as a model for his ending. Remember Shane? The hero rides into the sunset --or is it sunrise? -- unrewarded, unheralded -- punished, in fact, for his heroism. That's how Schindler's List should have ended, with Schindler walking into the shadows and fade to darkness. Virtue is its own reward. We don't need an award's ceremony to tell us this guy was a hero.