Review of The Book Thief (2013) by Joe W — 16 Jan 2016

If you have read the novel as I have, you will be incredibly disappointed watching this dreadful movie. Firstly, the child acting was horrific. I feel a little harsh bashing young actors but come on! Sophie Nélisse was emotionless and just god awful.

Both her and Nico Liersch sounded as if they were reading straight from the script. (SPOILER) When Liesel's family and friends die, the girl barley cried. I didn't feel her agony, her pain, her fear.

. but when reading the novel I couldn't stop crying. Also, the voice of death sounded like this should have been a Disney movie. In the novel, death is telling the story with such magnificent and touching words.

You only heard death speak in the movie just a few times which was quite annoying and interruptive. Lastly, at the end when everyone dies, no one is bleeding, no one has injuries, they died without so much as dirt on their faces.

God, it was incredibly unrealistic and dreadful to watch. If you enjoyed the novel as much as I did and save yourself the disappointment. Throughout the whole movie I kept checking my clock to see how much longer I would have to sit through this misery.

This movie barley describes WWII let alone the Holocaust .Terrible directing, terrible acting, terrible movie.