Firstly I'll say that this film is beautiful.

It's cinematography and acting are stunning.

The story is one that absolutely has to be told.

But they really really dropped the ball by making it only 90 minutes long. This film needed to be at least 3 hours long. Over half of this film was spent trying the viewer to feel as much pain as possible whilst Barrack 9 were being tortured. The escape it's self was literally them jumping under a fence. Their interactions with others were rushed and very unpolished, and ultimately the very message of the film became mostly an afterthought. It's bitterly disappointing that this film couldn't be more, show more, engage more, tell more and deliver more.

Aside from a rather poor effort from John Hannah ("Warren"),this is actually quite a gripping story telling of two young Slovak Jews - "Freddy" (Noel Czuczor) and "Valér" (Peter Ondrejicka who manage to escape from the eponymous hell-hole they have been deported to. The film, based on a true account, depicts both their daring getaway and their tortuous journey to try and reach safety in their homeland. Once these men have fled, the Nazi authorities at the internment camp are determined to find how they did it, and who helped them (regardless of whether or not anyone actually did) and engage in some brutal and violent torture of those men left behind. Director Peter Bebjak does not pull his punches - both threads of the narrative present us with a tough, authentic looking watch and the leading men offer us a gritty, frequently quite touching insight into just how perilous their existence might have been. The film looks great, too - plenty of attention to detail and the photography captures well the harshness of their escapades. The pace is slow, annoying slow sometimes, but that does ultimately add to the accumulated sense of their achievement in the end, makes this a superior wartime adventure rooted in fact.

Well, first of all, if you sit down to watch the 2021 movie "The Auschwitz Report" with the hopes of it being a classic World War II movie, then you are in for a rude awakening. This is not a war movie about troops fighting on the land, air or sea, no this is a movie about the two people that managed to escape the horror of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and compile a report about the location and the events that took place there.

"The Auschwitz Report" is a slow paced movie, but it is an entertaining movie nonetheless. However, I doubt that writers Peter Bebjak, Tomás Bombík and Jozef Pastéka's 2021 movie is one that will easily fall into everyone's liking though. And while the movie does take place in one of history's most vile and loathsome places, then director Peter Bebjak actually manages to keep the movie relatively free of the atrocities committed there, but at the same time you know very well about the horrors that took place.

I enjoyed this movie given the historical aspect to the storyline, and also because it was based on actual events.

The movie does have some good acting performances by the cast, though I were only familiar with John Hannah of all the actors and actresses that were in the movie. I will say that actors Noel Czuczor and Peter Ondrejicka definitely carried the movie quite well with their performances.

I suppose that a movie such as this is one that can be difficult for some viewers to sit through.

"The Auschwitz Report" is a movie that you have to watch if you have an interest in World War II, and especially so if you have an interest in the events that took place at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

My rating of "The Auschwitz Report" lands on a six out of ten stars.