Katyn

I have a feeling that panning this movie would get the same reaction as saying you don't like Schindler's List from some people, but aside from the subject matter it's hard to find many comparisons. Lacking strong characters and a coherent narrative, Katyn is just too sprawling and unfocused to draw the viewer in.

The subject matter had a lot of potential to be intriguing, focusing on the internment and brutal execution of a group of Polish military officers and intellectuals by Stalin's army. Unfortunately, the script focuses instead on some vague and much less forceful acts of oppression and censorship in Poland surrounding news of the event, rather than the event itself.

Family drama can be done well, but in this case none of the worst events happen to the characters we see, and the absence definitely hurts the film.