Amateurish Revisionist Garbage

Rating: 1/10 (30 August 2011)

An earlier poster has described this as 'the holocaust for dummies', and it certainly is. I'm not going to step into the mire of factual accuracy, simply state that not one aspect of it presented the least appearance of realism.
In a nutshell; I didn't believe what I was watching. Maybe I've read too many accounts about the holocaust, but I don't think so. The whole production had an amateurish appearance, as if based entirely upon 3rd-hand heresay rather than research. The SS officers looked and behaved like caricatures. Set construction seemed minimalist. The acting was stiff and formulaic, script was crass. Made on a limited budget ($12m) was practically advertised in every take. As to predictability - you could see what was coming as soon as both boys confronted each other at the wire. Camera-work was unimaginative, editing clumsy and lacking any dramatic effect.
Here was a revisionist opportunity to give at least one Nazi a taste of his own Zyklon. See how he feels about having his kid gassed. Yeah - right on, man.
Without doubt, the worst movie of the genre I have ever watched.