One of the top 10 films of the year!

Rating: Null/10 (3 February 2003)

An outstanding and amazing masterpiece! This is probably Roman Polanski's best film. I feel this movie really shows the horrifying truth of what really happened to jewish citizens in Poland during World War II. This film is only for the strong-stomached though. It is extremely disturbing and morbidly shocking! There is one scene that really disturbed me! It was the scene where all these Nazi soldiers went into a house where a jewish family lived, while they were sitting down enjoying their dinner. The Nazis made them stand up and show them respect, and since their grandfather was in a wheelchair, it would be the impossible for him to stand up. Just to be mean, the Nazis picked up the poor elderly man's wheelchair, took him to the balcony, threw him out out of his wheelchair and over the balcony. During this scene you see his impact on the cold Polish sidewalk and his skull cracking open,you hear his family crying and screaming, and you hear the Nazis laughing and clapping in triumph! I was none other than shocked by that scene, but knew that were the things that really happened there, and Polanski (Roman) was just doing it to tell the story very truthful, and exactly how it went down. The major highlight of this movie I must say is Adrien Brody's absolutley compelling performance as a Polish Jewish composer in hiding during the holocaust. In result of this film, Brody (Adrien) has proven himself worthy of being in the acting category with such actors as Hopkins, Brando, DuVall and yes, DeNiro. There is only one guarantee with this film, it will make you reflect, cry, laugh at parts, and really make you grateful of what you have. This film is a definite nominee of Oscars! It even rivals 1993's Best Picture Winner, Schindler's List. There is no way you can miss this film, see it soon! Grade: A