Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Why is this so great?

It is politically correct, perhaps, to call any work dealing with the Holocaust great just because it deals with the subject, maybe because one fears the charge of anti-Semitism. I suspect that's the major reason this film has built a reputation. But this is NOT a great film. Like many period pieces dealing with aristocrats, it's a stately bore. The plot and character development take forever to build any steam. Just when you begin to care about the characters -- the movie ends. Or, more accurately, just stops, dead in in tracks, not a single plotline resolved. Characters just disappear along the way, randomly, with no dramatic impact. I wondered if they chopped away the last third of the film by accident when I rented it. It is beautifully photographed, but way too detached from it's subject matter until it's too late. In the end, too frustrating to be entertaining or thought-provoking.