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God on Trial (2008)
a misplaced "debate drama"
In an interview the writer said he wanted to create a "debate drama" and he was wary of exploiting the "emotional petrol" of the Holocaust. In that he was very successful I must admit, if you expect anything else you will be utterly disappointed, especially if you have ever read accounts of Holocaust survivors. Spoiler alert!
A group of prisoners put God on trial: why did God turn against the Jews, but has he? It goes on like this for 90 minutes. It seems the writer didn't do his research properly, there are plenty of silly mistakes, the "Jews" don't wear stars, you think there were only British Jews (one French) in Auschwitz, everything makes an unrealistic or even worse fake and cheap impression. I read it was shot in two weeks and no wonder it's such a poor production. I'm sorry but as a viewer I just don't expect long and quite boring academic speeches from starving prisoners. Interesting questions are raised but sometimes you get the impression the writer didn't want to dig too deep, sometimes the characters seem to be detached from the Holocaust, he created a "debate drama" but setting it in Auschwitz was a mistake.
Outpost (2008)
a very stupid and childish movie / should be a video game
This is one of those movies you hate yourself for watching. The story takes awfully long to develop, the structure is weak, sometimes you wonder who is the real protagonist and the antagonist is virtually non existent. The biggest sin: the movie takes historic facts -- Nazi pseudo scientific experiments on humans and turns it into a joke. Just awful and stupid. I don't have anything against zombie and vampire movies or games, but please there is hardly a more serious topic than the Nazi crimes, it shouldn't be turned into a farce. This movie could be a game, where you run around and shoot zombies without the Nazi experiments backstory. Shooter games are cool. Just think what message this movie sends to teenagers: Nazis tried to create a superman, Nazi experiments were "cool".