The Counterfeiters won the Oscar for best foreign language film and I sit here wondering why. Yes, most foreign films dealing with the Holocaust at least earn a nomination but this shouldn't have been in that group.

For a film dealing with such heavy subjects regarding choosing survival, honor or principle there is very little drama and/or suspense. One of the faults is that they give away an important part of the ending at the start of the picture.

Based on a true story with an interesting premise--flooding the English and American market with counterfeit money and the Jewish men involved--I think I would have rather seen a documentary regarding what was called Operation Bernhard.

Also, disappointing, was that at the end they didn't an epilogue on what happened to the people involved.

As in most Holocaust films there are moments of horror shown such as a German officer urinating on a prisoner that make you want to turn your head away from the screen in man's inhumanity to man. On the other when an officer randomly shot a prisoner I immediately thought of the scene in "Schindler's List" where Ralph Feinnes does the same thing but makes it sear in your mind.

This is not a bad film but for such a heavy subject I found it to be very uninvolving.