Aesthetic but stereotypical (and long)

Rating: Null/10 (26 August 2003)

I saw this movie on the plane during a transatlantic flight
yesterday. While I agree that watching movies on a plane
diminishes their value, I don't think this is applicable to The
Pianist. Technically I found it very well made (photography, music,
colors, etc.) but I have to say that the story itself contains every
single stereotype available to survival stories (not only WWII
camps). That was actually pretty disappointing because I had
heard so many good things about it. Brody was good but his was
not an Oscar performance.