Well i just recently watched the Great Raid and i thought it was a good movie. However; im not much of a pacific theatre buff so i was wondering what everyones take was on that movie.
I just bought it fairly recently It was good, however it seemed incomplete. I cant put my finger on the reason why though
Gentlemen, I've had the film for sometime and saw it at a sneak peak with some 1st Ranger Bn. veterans...they were awesome. As for the film...I thought it was complete though I'd wish they'd leave the lousy love triangle out of the stinking war movies they don't have a place in them....in some cases doing just that turns them from "guy" movies to "chick" flicks. Urrrggg!!! I thought though other than that and the hokey Sportsman Guide uniforms along with various vietnam uniforms pieces that it was well done. It had a good story line being based off of the Cabantuan Raid made by the 6th Ranger Bn. and the actors did a good job creating the persona's of all main characters...overall...I give it a slightly above average rating of... good movie...especially for Miramax! Just my take... Regards, MARNE
I saw this film and was unimpressed. The story, while interesting is not the most compelling to me, and the film never really grabbed my interest. Frankly I felt there were a multitude of other much more compelling stories to be told.
I enjoyed it. The raid at cabanatuan was an extrodinary event that needed to be told, but it could hve been better.
I saw this movie and I thought it was very good, I was positively surprised. The love story didn't even bother me so much, it was just a minor detail that didn't hurt the story. I think the movie raised saw serious moral issues. For example, when the guy in the P.O.W. camp got executed along with 10 of his comrades, do you think it was entirely his fault the other 10 got shot, or was it his right as a prisoner of war to try to escape, no matter what the consequenses were going to be? I couldn't decide on this, what do you think?
I liked the film. From the survivers I have met, it seens the film did a resonable job of capturing the mood of the time. I wish they could have emphasised more the simple but expediant of haveing a Reccon Aircraft was in providing both noise cover and a visual distraction for the guards. I just wish they had done more about the singular effort made by the individual (the name escapes me) who climbed up into the elevated shack some hundreds of meters from the front gate so as to get an overview of the camp and thus provided key intlligence.
Saw it and liked it. This movie was almost as accurate as you can get according to a USMC veteran I talked with at a gun show--who had known a few of the men who were on that raid.
