It's not one story but three: (1) the mission led by Benjamin Bratt to rescue the prisoners (2) the misery of the captives and (3) the true experiences of a nurse, played by Connie Nielson, living in Manila on a forged passport. I suppose many other films would qualify too - "The Guns of Navarron," "The Professionals," et al.īut there are problems with both the writing and the performances. It all rather resembles "Saving Private Ryan", which is understandable in view of SPR's success: a small elite unit sneaking through enemy territory on an important, life-saving mission. The action scene is believable if confusing. The period detail is impeccable - right down to the herringbone pattern of the GI fatigues and the leather (not rubber) soles of their boots. The producers shot the film in swampy northern Australia and the city scenes in Shanghai. The result was described to me by a friend who had grown up in Ilo-Ilo. The Japanese militarists had subverted Bushido and turned it into an ideology in which all conquered people were characterologically inferior. Earlier versions counseled patience and mercy.
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The traditional warrior's code usually called Bushido varied a great deal over time. But for the Japanese, the code covering treatment lay not in the Geneva Accords or, for that matter, in Bushido. Germans treated their prisoners relatively well, as if they were captured warriors. The Japanese occupation of the islands was undeniably brutal. The raid was successful and the cost not as high as it might have been without the help of the Phillipine resistance. The raid was designed to liberate a prisoner-of-war camp before the Japanese could kill all the inmates. This is a very expensive and carefully scripted scenario of a real raid staged by Army Rangers in the Phillipines towards the end of World War II.
Reviewed by rmax304823 6 / 10 True to Life. The final rescue action is done well and the movie is generally good but not great. This would work better if the movie picks between a prison movie or a rescue movie and put Fiennes in the lead of either. That seems to be the more important role and a more established actor like Fiennes should be doing it. However that does make me question why Benjamin Bratt is cast as the soldier in charge of the rescue. The scale of production is just below epic.
It's also scattered among the various character sideplots. It does stray into melodrama from time to time. It's an old fashion traditional war movie. The movie switches back and forth between the rescue, people like Margaret Utinsky (Connie Nielsen) who is a nurse in occupied Manila, and the prison camp where men led by Major Gibson (Joseph Fiennes) suffer under Japanese brutality. Over the course of 5 days starting at Jan 27, 1945, Lieutenant Colonel Mucci and Captain Prince (James Franco) lead the 6th Ranger Battalion along with the Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrillas to liberate the prison camp some 30 miles behind enemy lines. The Japanese are getting orders to liquidate the prisoners.
In the notorious POW camp at Cabanatuan in occupied Philippines, the Japanese hold about 500 American prisoners who had survived the Bataan Death March. Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 6 / 10 functional war movie but scattered among various plots
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