Review of Defiance (2008) by Meritcoba — 02 May 2016

Perhaps it is unfair to review a film I did not finish, but I found Defiance boring and therefore decided to watch something else(it was Snatch). I don't mean that there wasn't enough action. A movie can have no action at all and still be entertaining. This movie felt like the actors from Fiddler on the Roof decided to take up arms against the jerman zwine*. Throw in some stereotypical Jews that need to be kept safe into the mix and there you have your group of survivors hiding out in the woods. I just couldn't really care for them as the characters I found hard to connect with.

And then their weird accents.

My observation is this: you don't need to give foreigners weird English accents when the movie is about them and they all speak the same language and the scene is set in their country. So don't do any accents when everyone you see is French speaking among their French fellows in a movie set in France. You can just have them speak proper English.

I give it a five because I didn't see the whole movie. From what I did see I would give it a 2 if the part of the movie that I missed is as dull as the part that I saw.

*Afterthought: that would actually be interesting when I think of it.