A slow moving but inspiring true story about a prisoner escape from the Siberian gulag during WWII. Great acting. I say B-

Rating: 6/10 (20 April 2011)

How far can the human spirit take you? After being imprisoned my communists in the Siberian gulag during WWII, a group escapes and begins the long journey to freedom. This is another difficult movie to review for me. It's a true story and pretty powerful, but also very slow moving I thought. The acting is excellent, Colin Farrell is really, really good in this. The story is powerful and inspiring, but it is hard to get into. This is in no way a bad movie, but to me it was not as good as I was hoping. Many will really enjoy this, as I did, but I felt it was missing something to make it great. I just can't tell you what it was. Powerful and inspiring, just slow. I give it a B- Would I watch again? - I don't think so