Nicely done, I hated it

Rating: 7/10 (26 April 2010)

If you abstract away the performance of the actors, which was brilliant, the imagery, which was most of the time very good, although sometimes over the top, the movie is a pretty straight forward example of a type that I personally dislike. Telling you what type that is would spoil everything, so I'll just give you this: prepare for an ending that might suck.
That being said, let's not abstract the actors yet. Leonardo de Caprio played very well, with a performance reminding me of The Aviator, while the supporting cast, even if having rather limited roles, did their job very well. If you look at the distribution, though, it was only to be expected.
The way the movie was shot was very nice, with images both visually nice and emotionally charged. Sometimes, though, special effects and scene manipulation went overboard, as is the case with the dreams and the scene when the German soldiers fall in the same rhythm as the camera moving...
Bottom line: if the idea behind it doesn't annoy the crap out of you, then you will probably like it.