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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:3
Rotten:23
Average Rating:3.6/10
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Dec 3, 2004 Limited
Starring: Gretchen Becker, Martin Landau, Judy Parfitt, Kenny Doughty
Director: John Daly
he story loses its grip and momentum during the laboriously realized denouement, which follows the hired help's struggle to escape to Switzerland amid overwrought action sequences propelled by a shrieking violin-driven soundtrack.
A minor example of a major genre: the feel-good Holocaust movie.
Top CriticThe most mawkish and shallow take on the holocaust committed to screen in many a long year.
A case study in why Holocaust movies are so difficult to get right.
Is over-arching sincerity only results in a stiffness that gives way to B-movie melodramatics in time for the cliché-ridden finale.
A few genuinely tense scenes are not enough to overcome a thin script, weak direction and an unceasingly high-strung score.
Potentially powerful subject matter is given an unconvincingly melodramatic treatment.
Daly ladles on the overwrought music and the moist close-ups, throwing in everything but Climb Every Mountain in a bid for our emotions.
Top CriticA dull and lumbering thriller.
Directed with the flat artlessness of a lower-rung Masterpiece Theater entry, pulling heartstrings with Igor Khoroshev’s lugubrious score and scripted with banal bromides insulting to its subject matter.
A hokey soap opera set against the backdrop of the Holocaust.
Top CriticInsultingly seeks to soothe and comfort against the reality of atrocity.
Mainly notable for its inappropriate, blithe sentimentality. In another film this would be the usual Hollywood hokum. In a film about the most serious subject imaginable, it amounts to moral idiocy.
It turns real genocide into another kind of B-movie moustache-twirling.
It's a sucrose period piece that somehow averts its gaze from the brutal reality of Nazi genocide, and manages to conjure a fatuous feelgood happy ending.
Pure sentimental melodrama, with not a moment's reflection on any issue larger than the fate of our heroes.
Top CriticIts intentions are doubtless good, but it ends up exploiting the Holocaust for cheap suspense.
The worst Holocaust movie ever.
Pic's dubious brand of heroism, half-baked historical sense, simplistic dialogue, flat staging and barely formed characters make for sluggish sledding.
The whole thing is coarse and vulgar, as it hides its low fascinations behind a scrim of Holocaust piety until it becomes pure kitsch.
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