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Best movie of this year hands down!

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

I was an ignorant teen when this movie came out, but little did I know 10 years later I would love it! I can't believe I hadn't seen it until today. What a great story and cast. I would recommend this to anyone! This is like the true story version of Red Dawn, but with much more heart!

Movie Review: "Defiance" (2008)Just rebounding from a highly-agile as face-pacing James Bond productions 22 "Quantum of Solace", leading actor Daniel Craig carries together with fellow support Liev Schreiber this differentiated World-War-2 action drama, concerning Polish Jews fleeing their Belarus ghetto neighborhood from invading National socialist-oppressors into the woods of Eastern Europe, when "Glory" (1989) director Edward Zwick stumbles over some inconvenient real-event thriller facts of left out local war crimson massacres by joining forces with overly-committed soviet partisans.Here must "Defiance" fight to stay relevant in retrospective, when professionally-shot machine-gun-action cinematography by highly-talented lighting cameraman Eduardo Serra, also responsible for shooting "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" in season 2010/2011. The Editorial in roller-coasting lengthy 130 Minutes becomes a stony passage in overall-depressive décor, when even young and capable supporting characters played by Alexa Davalos, Jamie Bell and Mia Wasikowska can hardly spark the so-needed instant classic feature for WW2-story emotional injections that this Edward Zwick directed movie stays behind preceding, far superior "Last Samurai" (2003) expectations at initial viewings.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

It seemed to be an excellent idea to make a WWII movie, set in Belarus in 1941-1945, showing the (in)famous Belski Brothers, who were Jews making their partisan camp and fighting against the oppressors. The problems stated immediately when I saw the casting. Don't get me wrong, Liev Screiber is a great choice, but Daniel Craig was clearly wrong. He is again a James Bond character, cool and defiant (Pun intended), but he lacks depth and is not convincing as a Jew. The rest of the casting is rather bland and bleak, so you will hardly remember anybody there. The second problem is the historic accuracy. I will not dwell onto details, but in reality that was not so simple as in the movie, as The Belskis fought not just Germans. The reality was much more convoluted, complicated and mixed. The third and really puzzling aspect is - why on earth do they speak a very weird mixture of typically simplified and wronged English and suddenly in Russia. I am Russian, and I was almost jumping on my chair hearing these sudden jumps from broken English to quite clean Russian. Liev speaks Russian better, by the way. Then the battle scenes - well, this shaky camera, these typical explosions, these bullets fatty zing-zanging onto soil - all of that is so ...wel.. Hollywood. The whole battle thing here is so hasty, kinky and wry that it leaves a feeling of utter disbelief. The overall impression - no, this is not your ultimate war movie. It leaves you cold and never lets the feeling of artificial setting go away. My rating - 2.

Set during the German occupation of Eastern Poland/Belorussia this film tells the story of a group of Jews who evaded the Nazis and local collaborators and survived in the vast birch forests. From here they would emerge to find food and attack the Nazis. The group forms when the Bielski brothers' father is killed; they decide to head into the forest rather than await the same fate. A small group of fellow survivors follow them but that number keeps rising. Initially they are poorly armed but with each raid against the enemy they become better and better armed.As time passes tensions rise within the group; Tuvia Bielski believes they must stay in the forest looking after all of the survivors but his brother Zus believes that those who can fight should attack the Germans whenever possible rather than just when it is absolutely necessary. Eventually Zus and those who think like him leave to fight with Soviet forces. This isn't the end of the troubles; Tuvia must also deal with those who disagree with his edict that everybody gets equal rations no matter what their contribution to the society. Inevitably they are eventually found and must run again, taking everybody with them.I must admit that before watching this film I had not heard about the events depicted; even if the 'true events' depicted in the film were somewhat modified to make a more exciting story it does at least make one aware that over a thousand Jews survived in the forests. The film tells the story at a steady pace and includes plenty of action that keeps things interesting. It isn't like a conventional war film though; time is spent showing how the people survive, not just concentrating on the fighters; it is very much about the community in the forest. The cast does a solid job; most notably Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber who play Tuvia and Zus… those in minor roles are almost as important though as collectively they make the society believable rather than just a collection of characters. Overall I'd certainly recommend this film; it might not be as true as it claims but it at least inspired me to read a little about event I knew nothing of before.