The Jewish Holocaust is one of the most despicable parts of human history. I would argue that the best person to depict the horrors of such an event is not Uwe Boll (“House of the Dead”, “Rampage”). He’s usually exploitative, offensive and amateurish. He’s even played Hitler in his comedy film “Blubberella”. Yet parts of “Auschwitz” are surprisingly done well. They seem to show the harrowing nature of events but like pretty much anything with Boll’s name attached to it, it has problems.

“Auschwitz” is a strange hybrid film with parts of it being like a movie showing Nazis soldiers gassing Jewish prisoners but we also get documentary parts where Boll interviews German students about Hitler and the Holocaust. There’s also an extensive use of archive footage during the latter third of the film.

At times, the film effectively shows the depraved acts that the Nazis committed towards the Jews, there are a few scenes with terrible acting and dialog. One scene that shows two German soldiers talking while looking at jewellery that they have taken from the Jews, contains the sort of awful dialog that you only hear in a movie by Uwe Boll. Boll himself plays one of the Nazis. The scenes with the German students are quite shocking too as many of them are ignorant about German history.

In some ways, I was dreading seeing a Holocaust film by Uwe Boll. However, it’s certainly not as bad as I thought it would be. It’s still not exactly good though because you have got the awkward dialog and the strange mix of styles. Why not give us a feature-length experience visualising the Holocaust? Why not give us a feature-length documentary showing how some modern Germans have a worrying lack of knowledge about the Holocaust and the Nazi era? Trying to mix the two creates this odd little movie. It’s certainly not as bad as many of his other films but I would not recommend that you waste your time with “Auschwitz”.