Topic has been done before, and done better

Rating: 7/10 (10 July 2003)

I'm not sure why this movie received as much hype as it did. It seems as if any movie with decent cinematics that covers WWII (especially the Jewish side) is immediately lifted to Oscar potential. The protagonist in this movie gives the viewer no reason to root for his survival. The heroes are everyone who helps this person survive when he obviously does nothing to help himself. Watch the 1978 Holocaust or Uprising (2001 Leelee Sobieski) or Schindler's List, and you'll see that everything in this movie has been done before and done much better. At least in those movies you don't get the same feeling you get when you watch an 80s horror movie where the stupid girl doesn't pick up the gun and help out her boyfriend who is getting killed by the boogie man.