How does Daniel Craig have time to make the Bond movies and now Defiance, too? I don't know how he does it, but I do know it's a good thing he does. No one else these days seems to be quite so ruggedly, broodingly handsome. He's the kind of actor who you don't know whether to covet or fear -- and I mean that as a compliment, okay? He's both badass and hot. And he makes damn good career choices. Case in point? Defiance , which is dark and sad and breath-taking.

We start with a closeup of a farmhouse in what looks like rainy Ireland. Daniel Craig is staring at it broodingly (but handsomely!) and voicing over, "I can still see their faces: my parents, all the others." And we don't know what he's talking about. But then we see some black-and-white flashbacks of people being kidnapped and probably shot. Then we see Jamie Bell crying and hugging Daniel Craig. And then Liev Schreiber saying he should have protected them, while Daniel Craig hugs him too. Okay, if you keep hugging people, Daniel, I'm going to have to take back all of that talk of you being tough and scary. Badasses don't hug. It turns out this is during World War II, and Liev, Daniel, and Jamie are joining forces to get vengeance for their families' deaths at the hands of the Nazis. Then they start a sort of Robin Hood-ish band of thieves (only it's a band of survivors) in the woods, and train them to be warriors. There's a wedding, and they're happy because their revenge is surviving, but then the Nazis find them and start bombing. So they run for their lives. And then we find out it's based on a true story that's never been told before. It actually looks good. And, unlike Valkyrie, it seems to try to maintain some singularity of accents. But, still, they're speaking English. So is that any better?

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