"Uprising" tells an interminably long tale of a bunch of Jewish WWII freedom fighters in Poland's Warsaw Ghetto who managed to become a thorn in the side of the German occupation forces. By the numbers and looking every bit like the budget-conscious t.v. flick it is, "Uprising" is flat, stagey, manipulative, uninspired, and almost 3 hours long. Little more than a lot of semihistorical busyness, contrived suspenseful moments, stereotypical sneering Germans soldiers brutalizing the helpless Jew with the usual assortment of naked corpses scattered about, this flick is a failed attempt at tweaking history for the sake of entertainment. Nonetheless, the film may have some value for people young enough to have not yet had their fill of holocaust films with enough time on their hands to contend with the long run time. (C)
