I've read a thousand reviews about how sensational and outstanding this incredibly slow movie is. The scenes stretch forever and whoever directed this should have cropped at least half of the scenes of Nazis killing Jews off-screen. Yes, you read right. Out of the THREE-HOURS movie, at least one hour is some building recorded from afar and gunshots in the distance, people making queues and signing papers, and half an hour of mug-shots of people looking sad. I get it, ok?
Some people think that you need three hours of that to understand why Schindler had a change of heart but it's not necessary. Some people think that recording a docudrama-ish movie in black and white is genius, but I don't. Some think that the movie is very "informative", and for that, I have two commentaries: one, if I want a documentary I go watch a documentary, and two, the movie barely graze the circumstances of Nazi Germany and its one-sided. Sure, the ending (not the epilogue that practically ruins the mood of the ending) is pretty decent... But not worth three hours of boredom. If you want to watch a terrible slow "build-up" humanist drama about how tragic was the Third Reich, a thing that you probably already knew, knock yourself out.
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