Review of The Statement (2003) by Julie R — 04 May 2004

Oh well, whatever, lame story. The almost best scene of [b]The Statement[/b], as far as I managed to watch this 2-hour-long bore, was when the guy on the road in the beginning was shot in front of his car, and I'm not much of a killer-fan.

And Michael Caine playing a Nazi just doesn't seem right. Also those mysterious Jews wanting to kill the Nazi, dunno, somehow their appearance is lacking a bit in the movie. You only really get to see what's going on among the Nazis and how they're trying to protect themselves, but you hardly get to see the Jewish side, which makes the story feel incomplete anyway.

This movie seemed like a desperate attempt to make YET another movie about World War II and the Nazis. If you try to make a movie people should care about, then at least do it with some passion. I didn't feel it in this one.

The acting and script were messy. I felt like - if the Nazi feels so sorry about what he's done in the past, then why don't he just kill himself being threatened to get killed anyway? Just like Hitler did.

Oh, and I wonder - how was this movie categorized as horror? I don't so no horror, it's just a thriller.