performance driven

One critic used this term to describe the movie and I think he was just right. Very rarely I have seen a film that is meant to entertain in a certain ambitious and demanding way - an adventure flick that actually deals with his characters and their strenghts, weaknesses, needs and inner processes so acurately. Especially the fact that a german figure, who appears stoic and unhuman (almost to be afflicted with some aspects of fascism) for a long time, turns out to be not only complex and colourful, but in the end as the leader to survival (I think this does not appear too often in a Hollywood movie). I have to admit that I saw this movie for the first time, when I was about twelve years old and I was stunned - and until this day I am. Exemplary and exciting!