Like a good TV miniseries, but definitely not a GREAT movie

Rating: 6/10 (24 January 2007)

This movie's up there with Manions of America and Noble House, but let me tell you my friends, it's no Masada! There was a lot of talk when this was out about how the man found it in himself to survive. Frankly, the movie merely shows him hiding out, sometimes with the help of others. Hardly painting a picture of survival as I would view it. More about escaping detection.
Worth seeing, but I can't believe it won an Academy Award. It's far better than that abomination we all know as Lost in Translation, though.
The Pianist is really just the Diary of Anne Frank starring Adrien Brody as Anne Frank. Polanski did better with Bitter Moon and The Ninth Gate.
Remember, a good flick, just not Oscar material.