One line review: If you can get past the length you will find a movie that will strike an emotional cord in the coldest of hearts.
Movie Title: Schindler’s List
Actors: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall
Director: Stephen Spielberg
Year: 1993
Genre: Drama
Method of Viewing: DVD
Location of Viewing: Home
Viewing with: No One
Rotten Tomatoes: 96% – Schindler’s List blends the abject horror of the Holocaust with Steven Spielberg’s signature tender humanism to create the director’s dramatic masterpiece.
My rating: *****
My assessment (the first 101 words at least): I feel obligated to give this movie five star not because it’s considered one of Spielberg’s best films, but because it is the first film to actual strike an emotional chord with me. At first, I thought that I wouldn’t be able to relate to so much death so long ago. However, once Schindler realizes the level of destruction, and begins to desperately try to save as many people as possible, you finally feel a human connection to this film. Somehow the timing of Schindler’s emotional turn around coincided with my own, making the last thirty minutes a grueling, somber triumph.