This movie popped up on HBO. Other than a solid performance by Ben Foster, there isn't much here.
It is based on a true story, but it just feels like dramatic liberties are taken throughout. At 2 hours & 9 minutes, it feels too long. There are repeated timeline jumps from the 40's, to the 50's, to the early 60's... it all just gets a bit exhausting after awhile. It is a holocaust movie, it is a boxing movie, and it is a movie about finding peace in a life that has been filled with nothing but maliciousness.
Then there is this little snippet from his Wiki page: "Haft managed to escape from one such march in April 1945. On the run, he killed a bathing German soldier and donned his uniform. During the remaining weeks until the end of the war, he moved from village to village. At one point he killed two elderly people who harbored him on their farm because he feared they had discovered he was not a German soldier and would turn him in to authorities." And you start to realize... maybe this isn't the best person to be telling holocaust survivor stories about...
I get that they are just telling this guy's story, but Hollywood has already told far better WW2 movies, Holocaust movies, and Boxing movies.
