This is this generation's "Jud Süß", hammered together for this side of History. For those of you who understand what that is, you probably feel disgusted at why I gave this thing 1 star. It deserves none but alas, that's the way the scale works around here. I have watched and quite enjoyed "the diving bell and the Butterfly" and found it deep, meaningful, sobering and a well put together effort from a director I had never heard about. It was one of those films that was recommended to me because it had "that guy from 'Munich'"... or so I was told.
But I digress.
This is the kind of thing that can really ruin a movie experience to me. A film that tries so hard to send out a message of a real World conflict, described with such inanity, ineptitude and so completely divorced from the reality it purports to represent... reminds me of "Kingdom of Heaven".
If you are looking for an honest look at the Middle Eastern conflict, please look elsewhere. This film will do you a disservice. And the irony that it came out on the very same day that that the Fogel family "made" (local) headlines just adds insult to injury! Pun intended!
But I digress.
This is the kind of thing that can really ruin a movie experience to me. A film that tries so hard to send out a message of a real World conflict, described with such inanity, ineptitude and so completely divorced from the reality it purports to represent... reminds me of "Kingdom of Heaven".
If you are looking for an honest look at the Middle Eastern conflict, please look elsewhere. This film will do you a disservice. And the irony that it came out on the very same day that that the Fogel family "made" (local) headlines just adds insult to injury! Pun intended!