Kinda like a Jewish version of Kenneth Branagh's Belfast, that was bad movie in my opinion and this one's worse.

The acting is very very flat and comes across as an episode of "Days of our Lives" in its texture and script. I had a twitching hard time just keeping my finger off the exit button as the story inched along.

In fact it took a great effort to get through the first few minutes of the opening scenes.

I persevered, but to no avail as the plodding pace made each minute seem like an hour.

It just goes to show you that even the most successful directors can get lost when they make movies about their own life stories.

There's no one with the balls to tell them that they're turning out dryer lint and so the project gets completed and is released with the fanfare that a famous director expects.

That this movie even made the cut for any Oscar awards is beyond me, you can only attribute it to the media's fawning for Mr. Spielberg.

To be fair, he has made some brilliant movies but this isn't one of them.