Ehhhh, it's a hit and miss for sure.
Now, the story seems interesting enough which is why I watched it. I love historical movies and Jews hiding from Nazis sounds pretty darn interesting. That's the good thing about it. Then the budget feels very high for such a small story production. It also never gets overly dull or predictable. It's very much watchable.
Now, there are some very serious issues here that are so glaring that it's hard to just blindly like it. The actors put on a Jewish accent when speaking "French". Meaning that French here is just English with an accent. It's not bad here, but it adds to the overall silliness. The scenes are all overblown Hollywood stuff. Instead of following the real history, which is surely extremely interesting, we have a Hollywood version of the story.
The protagonists are action heros often tricking Nazis or escaping their grasp. That surely happened, but in no way did it happen this way. This kind of overblown action is better fit for fiction Hollywood not real life stories. It really takes you out of the setting and story when you have Hollywood chase scenes and super tricks done to trick the Nazis. It's stuff better fit for a Tarantino movie with "fake" history.
Then you have a ton of messages here all working AGAINST the main message of Jews surviving WW2. It's so much noise that you really don't know what the movie tries to be. Of course the leader of the resistance is a woman and they make a big deal out of that. Because? Why? The main person the Nazi Klaus Barbie captured was a man not as woman. A real life person with a name and real story they could have told instead of this fake history made to fit Hollywood anno 2021. Then there is a Black man in the resistance too who the camera of course lingers on to show us... what exactly? It's a movie about Jews why is it trying to be overly progressive? I watch a ton of movies about Black history and I don't expect random Jews to have scenes in them for no reason. You already have a strong message in the story itself about good and evil. Then you have a scene where Klaus Barbie beats up a gay Nazi at a party. Again, why? Why all these silly over the top scenes? This is not how Nazis acted. The suffering was caused behind fences and locked doors and that's the scary part. Someone walking into a party and beating up a man is something a silly James Bond villain would do. Even the message at the end is about Gypsy kids. They also make a huge deal out of making sure communists and socialists are also seen as the counter groups to Nazis. Everything here is about various groups modern progressives love and it's like the movie doesn't really think Jews are important enough to have a full movie be about them only. It's all a huge mess. It's not bad to make a movie about Gypsies during WW2. Or maybe French women during WW2. It's just silly to just add random scenes like this into a historical movie by forcing them into the story in unnatural ways.
The Nazis overall are just extremely evil in every single way and all their movements and acts are pure evil psychopath actions. There is nothing subtle here. You don't feel like you are watching history. You feel like you are watching a theater play. Furthermore every scene just lingers way too long on things. Emotional scenes are stretched out to be twice as long as they should have been and other events are barely shown.
It's okay. It's just a huge miss and historically a mess because it tries to be overly progressive.
Now, the story seems interesting enough which is why I watched it. I love historical movies and Jews hiding from Nazis sounds pretty darn interesting. That's the good thing about it. Then the budget feels very high for such a small story production. It also never gets overly dull or predictable. It's very much watchable.
Now, there are some very serious issues here that are so glaring that it's hard to just blindly like it. The actors put on a Jewish accent when speaking "French". Meaning that French here is just English with an accent. It's not bad here, but it adds to the overall silliness. The scenes are all overblown Hollywood stuff. Instead of following the real history, which is surely extremely interesting, we have a Hollywood version of the story.
The protagonists are action heros often tricking Nazis or escaping their grasp. That surely happened, but in no way did it happen this way. This kind of overblown action is better fit for fiction Hollywood not real life stories. It really takes you out of the setting and story when you have Hollywood chase scenes and super tricks done to trick the Nazis. It's stuff better fit for a Tarantino movie with "fake" history.
Then you have a ton of messages here all working AGAINST the main message of Jews surviving WW2. It's so much noise that you really don't know what the movie tries to be. Of course the leader of the resistance is a woman and they make a big deal out of that. Because? Why? The main person the Nazi Klaus Barbie captured was a man not as woman. A real life person with a name and real story they could have told instead of this fake history made to fit Hollywood anno 2021. Then there is a Black man in the resistance too who the camera of course lingers on to show us... what exactly? It's a movie about Jews why is it trying to be overly progressive? I watch a ton of movies about Black history and I don't expect random Jews to have scenes in them for no reason. You already have a strong message in the story itself about good and evil. Then you have a scene where Klaus Barbie beats up a gay Nazi at a party. Again, why? Why all these silly over the top scenes? This is not how Nazis acted. The suffering was caused behind fences and locked doors and that's the scary part. Someone walking into a party and beating up a man is something a silly James Bond villain would do. Even the message at the end is about Gypsy kids. They also make a huge deal out of making sure communists and socialists are also seen as the counter groups to Nazis. Everything here is about various groups modern progressives love and it's like the movie doesn't really think Jews are important enough to have a full movie be about them only. It's all a huge mess. It's not bad to make a movie about Gypsies during WW2. Or maybe French women during WW2. It's just silly to just add random scenes like this into a historical movie by forcing them into the story in unnatural ways.
The Nazis overall are just extremely evil in every single way and all their movements and acts are pure evil psychopath actions. There is nothing subtle here. You don't feel like you are watching history. You feel like you are watching a theater play. Furthermore every scene just lingers way too long on things. Emotional scenes are stretched out to be twice as long as they should have been and other events are barely shown.
It's okay. It's just a huge miss and historically a mess because it tries to be overly progressive.