T'pol T'pau

Very disappointing, especially Kingsley's wooden performance. The film plays fast and loose with the facts and it's hard to suspend disbelief when there are so many American & English accents flying around. I never got past Eichmann sounding like a British aristocrat and still don't understand why Kingsley was cast in this role. The best make-up artist in the world couldn't make him look like a man in his 50s (when Eichmann was captured), let alone a man in his 30s in the flashback scenes. A solid supporting cast carry most of the film but even they can't make up for its dead heart and flaccid directing.

Although it glosses over some aspects of the female PoW experience, the film stays mostly true to published accounts by survivors (although those books are much better than any film). A fine cast of great Australian actors do a solid job of showing the different personalities and how they worked (or didn't work) together throughout their incarceration. Whilst Glenn Close may be the "big name" start of this film, she's frequently outshone by other cast members especially Cate Blanchett and the cohort of Australian actresses making up the core group.

A highly romanticised and urealistic film that completely belittles the real experiences of people who lived through this war. Some great actors are completely wasted and the central character is unlikeable and unbelievable. Spielberg is a great filmmaker, but this is not a great film.

What a waste of talent, time and money. I love Jason Statham. I love Hugh Grant. I love Guy Ritchie. But I didn't love this. By the end of the first half hour I was terminally bored by this tired, stodgy pastiche of clichés. The sound of my husband snoring through it was more exciting than the film.