Why was my review declined? Please advise.

To whom it may concern:

As sometimes happens, my reviews are declined. Why they are declined is a mystery. I do not use all caps, I do not use vulgarities, I do not use exclamation points (or do so rarely). In this particular review, I used the word "hell." Is that against the rules?

Here is the post #: #230408-013424-110804

Below is the post. If someone can advise why it was declined, I will edit it and repost. Thank you. 

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"A missed opportunity"

This movie is, if I understand correctly, based on a stage play by C. P. Taylor, who also wrote the screenplay.

I did not see the play, which may have been impactful. As for the film: it moves quite slowly and is very talky. Viggo Mortensen plays John Halder, a professor of literature and author of a book that defends euthanasia. Apparently this book endears Halder to Hitler, who was in power at the time.

Halder does not have a strong interest in the Nazi party, but he is slowly pulled into it, despite the fact that his best friend/psychologist Maurice (Jason Isaacs) is Jewish -- whom Halder ultimately decides not to help escape from Germany, even though he has the power to do so.

By allowing himself to become a Nazi, even if a reluctant one, Halder slowly clues in to the living hell that he is partially responsible for sending his friend to (the concentration camps). Sadly, it is too late for his friend, and Halder's essentially "good" nature is exposed as not being so good after all.

This premise was actually interesting. The problem was: the entire screenplay was performed with actors speaking in British English. Perhaps the idea of doing this was to prove that the nightmare that befell the Jews in Germany could happen anywhere; if so, this film was effective. But if not, and even if it wasn't, I could not get used to seeing the "Germans" as people speaking British English. It did not compute in my brain. I think it would have been a lot more effective to have actors that could at least do a legitimate German accent while speaking English.

That was the first issue. The second issue was that Halder was burdened by his troubled wife (a classical pianist with mental issues) and his mother suffering from dementia, not to mention having two children (which are often forgotten about). This supposedly created a natural situation where one of Halder's besotted students, Anne (Jodie Whittaker), a stalwart Nazi, to waltz in, become his mistress, then eventually his wife. Apparently all this was done to create a scenario in which Halder, distracted by life's issues and encouraged by his hot new gal pal, slowly becomes entrenched in the Nazis' upper regime, because of his euthanasia book, another item that gets forgotten about.

All of this leads to Halder not helping Maurice and then the moment when Halder realizes what his inaction may have led to (maybe the best part of the film, but also its most abrupt).

Viggo does a good job, but the whole project defeats itself by using British English-speaking actors, slightly forced scenarios (the mentally unbalanced wife and the dementia-bound mother) and too much talking in general.