SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

robert-armon After more than 70 years and with our historical depth of today knowledge, it is difficult to watch this movie with compassion ! The atrocities of the ruthless German side were no measure to the Soviet side, especially towards my people (children, women and elders !!), not to mention what the SS backed by the Wehrmacht did in Soviet territories till 1943...Indeed, the Soviet treatment can not be considered as "5 stars hotel" to say, but at least they were given the possibility to survive and not exterminated directly after arrival at Treblinka, Auschwitz, etc. by gas chambers and incinerated !! These people were soldiers and not helpless civilian population. If one wants to understand the Russian attitude (which I personally don't support as it was applied against their own citizens by Stalin)should watch the movie "Come and See" (1985) aka "Idi i smotri" by Elem Klimov and understand the Russian animosity towards the German soldiers (they were absolutely not gentleman). Let's put it in the right historical perspective!The roots of suffering started in Germany under Hitler were more than 90% of the population collaborated mostly willingly without a second thought or hesitation. On the artistic side the movie is too long and mainly a nice shot of the Asiatic part of Russia with a very melodramatic end...it makes new generations to think that in this criminal, unique phenomenon of the history all sides were equal in their maliciousness !

Bob Shank I took pleasure from this film =8-). I enjoyed it, and see no reason to diagnose its content to death, as so often happens within this IMDb venue of puerile reviewers begging attention. It is a good film with credible acting and directing. In the right mind-set, its flaws are easily overlooked. Its true story-line has obviously garnered interest from a plethora of international viewers, most of whom (as well, myself) are pleased with its content, acting, directing - and who have eloquently expressed so in their own words. I found humanity and justice within its depiction, the attendant emotions (oh yeah, I teared-up on occasion), and not just a little of history unbeknownst to me. My hope is, viewers can beg-off cultural bigotries of their own and work-through this little gem with an open frame-of-mind from the outset, emotionally digesting its often not-so-subtle atrocities and poignant beauty.

twelthmanonthedealteam I love foreign films. I was absolutely invigorated by the Argentina movie "The Secret In Their Eyes" which i saw yesterday and was the greatest movie I have ever experienced. So, when Netflix recommended As Far As My Feet, i was excited. To compare this to a Schindler's List quality is unfair. The quality was fair at best, some positive acting performances (the lead actor and his wife/children). But, the absolute carelessness of writer/director was offensive to a movie buff as myself. First, the Russian search would not have extended beyond a few days as they would have believed he died and was eaten by the wolves or covered in new snowfall. Next, at that time in history and still today, Russia was poor. And for two Russian hunters to come across him asleep and not rob/kill him is a stretch. Then, for those hunters to take him in, another stretch. Then for one of those hunters to be caught and taken to exact same Russian post (even though by that time they were much closer to other posts) is unbelievable. Then, to come across natives that have a stunningly beautiful woman who just happens to have lost her husband, and she is ready to strip and give herself to this new man entering the camp, another stretch. Also, a jew helping a German escape, and prepares to commit suicide if caught helping the German? Sure, that happens a lot. The train scene where they catch Clemens, his dog saves him as he runs off, and several Russians shoot at him in close range with machine guns, and of course he doesn't get hit. (That worked well in Rambo II and III). Then, the most unbelievable is the Russian camp leader treking all over the Soviet Union trying to find this one German, even going as far as Siberian to the Iranian border, and of course gets to the EXACT same check point, then lets him go? This movie was so poorly done, it is hard to classify as a Drama, it was more of a Comedy. I gave it a 3 instead of a one due to glimpses of a wonderful story with this man refusing to break a promise to his daughter. This movie has tremendous potential with a quality writer/director.

sleepingcat-1 The nausea of war in a movie should convey some equal leap into the barbarism on both sides. But here, we have hapless members of the Wehrmacht, which burned villages to the ground and raped and plundered, cast in cardboard: sympathetic victims. I appreciate what war does to the human psyche of initially idealistic people. And I appreciate the limitations involved in a film budget. Too many people do not know the huge fate of the German kids in the hands of Russian victors. Then again, few know the huge fate of Russians in the hands of the Wehrmacht and the SS: the same abuse, the same starvation. Just a different uniform, another language. This movie is soap-opera dribble. It could have had more context and thus, in an art sense, a much more cohesive tragedy.