- Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
- Release Date: Dec 31, 2008
- Starring: Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell, Liev Schreiber
- Summary: Based on an extraordinary true story, Defiance is an epic tale of family, honor, vengeance and salvation in World War II. (Paramount Vantage)
- Director: Edward Zwick
- Genre(s): Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 34
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Mixed: 16 out of 34
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Negative: 0 out of 34
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91It's an exciting action spectacle and a thoughtful, cumulatively moving family drama.
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75Here, Jews are not victims of genocide, but victors in the organized resistance against it.
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75The film isn't much of a character study; too many of its secondary characters are stereotypes, and it never fully engages our emotions the way "Schindler's List" or "The Pianist" did.
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60That butting of heads, as performed by actors as strong and soulful as Craig and Schreiber, lends Defiance an emotional charge, even as the film itself struggles dramatically to find its way out of those woods.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 29 out of 41
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Mixed: 5 out of 41
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Negative: 7 out of 41
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