Awfully boring

Rating: Null/10 (11 April 2003)

I found The Pianist to be terribly boring and tedious, and Adrien Brody's acting dull and uninspired. There was no character development at all, and Brody seemed to drift through the movie - though I think that was due to the direction, rather than his own acting capabilities. The settings were very nicely done though.
It was definitely far too long - you could have clipped an hour (from anywhere) and it would have made no difference to the story. Clipping 3 hours would have made for a much better movie. I strongly suspect that the awards it garnered were more for politically correct reasons than anything else.