Don't judge me

Rating: 3/10 (21 August 2011)

But this movie didn't break my heart. I find the plot very hollow and as much filled with nothing but the vague story you get from a trailer. I understand it has the ultimate memory value for someone facing the past of their families and ancestors, but the movie - as a movie itself was quite bad by my opinion and anyone broken down by couple of scenes of depressed people showing up in this movie is really easy to get moved by anything.
Ending of the movie was predictable from the very beginning, the main kid, Bruno, had such a transparent role that made me bored and wasn't at all interesting, no matter how much it was meant to present the naivety of German people from that time. Yes I sighed a couple of times watching it, and I find the theme of Holocaust very disturbing part of the world history... But this movie just didn't make it for me, I just don't find it good enough. Maybe because I'm not Jewish? If this is a movie made for children, then it's OK, if not, it needed a lot more working on the script and the plot itself. The way it is and as it is - it's only 94 minutes of waiting for the inevitable, which is not enough for me to rate it better. Call me desensitized, but I've seen much better done with less $ than this.