Impressive, but too sentimental in the end

Rating: 9/10 (4 May 1999)

One doesn't notice the long duration of the film. It doesn't bore you. Very unfortunately, in the end Spielberg shows his Hollywood background by becoming overly sentimental again. Schindler starts crying and regrets he didn't save more jews. Fienes is wonderfully frightening as the sadistic Nazi. At the start I thought I wouldn't be able to accept the english speaking polaks, germans and russians (there are other languages besides english, you know) but after a while it doesn't annoy anymore. I wonder whether the sex scenes have been removed for the US version.