A very lousy movie.(some spoilers)

Rating: 5/10 (8 June 2003)

There are so many things that I don't know with what to start. I think I will begin with main character though. OK, Adrien Brody plays Wladyslaw Szpilman, a somewhat known pianist that was working at Warsaw radio station. But the war starts and everybody's life is about to change. Then the whole movie watches closely the main character during WW2. I have to say that the plot is practically inexistent in this movie. Szpilman never does something interesting, he doesn't try to help anyone, people are dying everywhere around him and he shows almost no emotion(he just watches). Fortunately there are several people who help him, otherwise he would have died too. You can't sympathize much with the character and there is no romance involved, no love story in this movie(though I think it's more real this way). Near the end Szpilman almost gets shot by russians that confused him with a german(because of the coat he was wearing). If they would have killed him that time that would have been really hilarious(but I guess he was lucky - those russians probably were not too good shooters since they missed in close range like that; perhaps if they were germans. :D).
Considering the times I can say that people were actually eating food almost all the time. In fact I have never seen before a movie that presented so many people eating. I remember what one of the characters said: `Food is more important then time.'. Well who can argue with that anyway ? The effect that it had on me is that I got hungry too. I'm not sure that this was was the intention, but that's what happened(the movie was quite lenghty too).
Is this movie is good at something then that is without question to present the atrocities of war. It shows people being humiliated, shot without reason, burned alive, beaten to death(even children !), run over with a truck, thrown out the window, blown to bits by a tank's cannon etc. If this is your thing you might need some kind of medical treatment.
Since most of the reviews end with a recommendation, I will make one too. I would like to recommend it but frankly I don't have for what. Weak interpretation of the main actor, boring script, though it has some very good piano music towards the end. My mark is 5 out of 10.
I apologize for any grammar/spelling mistakes made. English is not my native language.(IMDb spelling check is very good and helped me a lot to correct some of the mistakes). Ah, and one more thing in case you are confused: War is definitively not good.