12 Movies Where the Critics Were Totally and Completely Wrong
8. Schindler’s List (1993)
While the Holocaust is always a challenging topic, many other directors have done a better job of portraying it.
Steven Spielberg’s documentary style war epic tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a German factory owner who saved the lives of over a thousand Jewish refugees by employing them in his factory.
After witnessing the horrors of the war, Schindler becomes devastated by what he has seen and spends his entire fortune on protecting as many refugees as possible.
Whilst many critics and fellow directors praised Spielberg for his effort at portraying the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp, historians tended to criticise the film for ignoring the true victims of the holocaust.
They claimed the movie focused too heavily on the relationship between Schindler and Nazi Officer Amon Goeth rather than the horrors that befell the refugees. Movie fans claimed the movie was another example of Spielberg attempting to tug on the audience’s heartstrings with another movie about good versus evil.
Schindler is portrayed as a German version of Mother Theresa towards the end of the movie which descends in Hollywood schmaltz. For a more accurate version of WWII, the German made film “Downfall” is far better.
