Trailer: DEFIANCE

by Matt Holmes

BLOOD DIAMOND was one of my absolute favourite films of 2006 and it hasn't taken long for director Edward Zwick to return to work and get us excited about one of his movies again. Opening on December 26th (yeah we got a long while yet) will be DEFIANCE, a World War II movie starring Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell as three Jewish brothers who escape from Nazi-occupied Poland into the Belarussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village of a 1,000 people in the forest in order to protect themselves and others in danger. It's one of those "it's so bizarre it's gotta be true stories" and if you can't wait till Christmas it is chronicled in the book Defiance: The Bielski Partisans which you can purchase HERE.

I like the trailer quite a bit. Bell, Craig and Schreiber are surprisingly quite convincing as brothers and the action scenes look just as powerful and heart-racingly intense as they were in Zwick's last movie. It starts off brilliantly (and kinda eerie) and it looks like the whole film is going to be built around Daniel Craig and his incredible looking performance. And boy he is really going for the Steve McQueen look with this film.

HD-Version HERE.
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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.