The Nurse Should Have Shot Him

Rating: 1/10 (3 December 1998)

Although this movie's plot ostensibly is not a bad one, its moral is sadly amiss. I don't understand how audiences can watch it and not realize that the title character sold thousands of lives to the Nazis by turning over maps of North Africa. Why? To return to the side of a dead woman who did not have the grace and courage to tell him to leave her and live on for her as Dawson did in Titanic.
This movie is a sad commentary on where we have gone in our thinking since the days of Casablanca. If I had been the nurse, I would have shot the English patient in the beginning of the film! I know too many people whose relatives died in German gas chambers.