| Defiance [DVD] [2008] | ![Defiance [DVD] [2008]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KA-P8lDxL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Edward Zwick
Actors: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, George MacKay, Mia Wasikowska
Studio: Momentum Pictures Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  80 reviews
Format: Anamorphic, PAL
Language: English (Audio Description)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 131 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5060116723083
ASIN: B001O0E6IW
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: May 18, 2009
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 Defiance February 8, 2009
KM (England)
57 out of 69 found this review helpful
'Defiance' stars Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell as three Jewish brothers during World War II who are hiding deep in the forests in Poland to escape from the Germans. The brothers fight for food, weapons and stay alive and help other Polish Jews who are fleeing in masses from their homes.
I quite like war films and I thought this was a good change for the genre as it kept away from the typical solider stories that we see in most other films and saw what it was like from the perspective of the civilians who have had to leave everything.
The acting from the whole cast was very good despite some dodgy accents, the characters were fantastic, the settings and special effects were believeable, the script and storyline were very well written but the only problem was it did become very slow moving at certain stages of the film and I felt it did struggle to keep me as gripped with the story as I was expecting it to. Overall it is still a great film that I'd definitely recommend a watch.
3.5/5
MOVING AND SAD BUT ALSO TRIUMPHANT - EXCELLENT FILM January 17, 2009
R. G. Williams (Cheshire, England , UK)
39 out of 48 found this review helpful
Daniel Craig forgets his Aston Martin and dinner suit to play a Jewish brother that forms a partisan force in the forests of Belarus in this WWII drama. It's difficult not to be type cast when you play 007 but Craig shows how versatile he is and does a mighty fine job of this role.
The story folows the original book about about Jewish resistance - retaliation, in the Second World War. Craig, Schreiber and Bell star as the Bielski brothers, Jews who escaped from Nazi-occupied Poland and formed a famous partisan army in the forest of Belarus.
Their aim is both to fight tooth and nail, and steal in to rescue who they can from the ghettos. The movie focuses on the plight of the jews and for once showing them as heroes as they survive in the freezing cold forest villages they have built with rebel Russian (true red army)soldiers, who fight and kill Germans who find their enclave and threaten to destroy it, which on one occasion they do.
But rebelling and seeking revenge for murder and rape is a key motivator, and perfectly demonstrated by Craig where he guns down the Nazi officer responsible for killing the Bielski parents, a scene Craig plays with the cold white hatred of Bond at his bloodiest.
The film is shot well, moves along at a good pace with no long spells of dialogue, but stirs the emotion of the sheer desperation of these people trying to both survive against incredible hunger, - 20 degree temperatures and alwasy looking out for Nazi bullets and bombs.
The fighting scenes are interspersed throughout the movie, and on the whole don't show too graphic violence or singling out of women and children being raped or murdered. This may though be part of the reason why the movie doesn't quite generate the sheer anger and hatred that makes you shed tears and stirs the adrenaline inside that puts you in the heart of the action baying for blood and revenge. For once though you can watch a world war two movie about Nazi's and Jews that doesn't get you reaching for the box of Kleenex.
The movie for me was a really pleasure to watch and it works well enough, but the film has one major stumbling block: the international cast are all required to speak English in Eastern European Yiddish accents and fail to achieve any sort of consistent pronunciation.
It's a distraction, but the burly Craig and Schreiber, as well as the slighter Bell, are all impressively expressive actors, and their sheer physical presence enables them to overcome the linguistic messiness.
So, to sum up if you like true WW2 movies, with a good cast, that is directed well with a beautiful soundtrack, then this is an interesting and heroic film that is well worth watching.
Defiance February 6, 2010
James Smith (Bracknell, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had been looking forward to see this film due to its historical content and it was a change for a War movie to show the plight of the escaping Jews to the advance of the Nazis. Firstly I found the first quarter of the film to be very good showing the escape to the woods and how the local Police were quick to betray the Jews, after that I found the relationship between Tuvia (Craig) and Zus (Schreiber) a little annoying at times and I found the portrayal of the Soviet Partisans a little strange. But Generally it is a good film Craig's performance is convincing as is Bell's (Asael) although I felt under used at times, I liked the switch from English to Foreign Language but the end of the Film is a little melodramatic
Good to have in your collection January 4, 2010
Mr. S. Barton
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I rented this prior to buying it after good words from my local video rental store. I had a couple of weeks of watching solid films and went through Che, Valkyrie and some others.
I didnt buy any of the others after renting them apart from this. Theres something about the story for me that keeps me interested throughout the film. It's not like im that interested in the War but the characters in the film all kept me engaged till the end.
I haven't been though the extras because i never do, im not interested in how they made the film at all so don't bother commenting about that.
Defiance is one of those films that was over shadowed by others but i enjoyed it more and found it very gripping and a lot of other reviews have mentioned "not another happy ending film". I dont think i would watch a film where everyone died at the end and plus this is a true story, which you can't really change.
I don't care if you buy this but i like.
Great Movie July 2, 2009
Ann Scott (England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I did not expect much from this movie even though it had great reviews, but it was an excellent movie, it kept you on edge all the way through. I knew nothing about this part of history so it was most enlightening, and entaining as well as being a real great film.
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