One for the Ages

Rating: 10/10 (22 March 2003)

Clearly a masterpiece of world cinema. Polanski has made good movies before most notably Chinatown but nothing he has done previously quite prepares you for this brilliant work. What could be a bleak unwatchable horror show instead becomes a universal story of survival thanks to the central performance of Adrien Brody who is in almost every scene. Everything comes together under Polanski's direction to produce a great motion picture that speaks directly to our present time of good versus evil. Yes there is evil in the world and this story from only a generation ago informs us that evil is still very much in the world. Evil takes its form in our fellow man.