Trailer Review: Defiance

Posted by Paul Clark


Oh baby, that Ed Zwick reeeeeeeeeeally wants an Oscar, doesn't he? Haven't failed to bring home the gold despite taking on the Civil War, Gulf War I, terrorism, the samurai lifestyle, and African conflict diamonds, now he's taking the tried-and-true route: a WW2 epic. More to the point, a drama about three brothers protecting a community of Jews from the Nazis. But Zwick being Zwick, there's much more action here than in such films as The Pianist and Schindler's List, with the brothers hiding their Jewish charges in the forest and arming them to fight back. When star Daniel Craig says, "we may be hunted like animals, but we will not become animals," it's hard not to be reminded of his character in Munich, who bluntly declared, "don't fuck with the Jews." After Blood Diamond and The Last Samurai, Zwick's got a lot of explaining to do, and unless I hear that he's somehow turned over a new leaf, I think I'll pass on this one.


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