Unbroken (2014)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 137m
Director: Angelina Jolie
Cast: Jack O'Connell, Miyavi, Domhnall Gleeson, Jai Courtney
Synopsis:
An Olympic runner is shot down over the Pacific during WW2 and taken prisoner by the Japanese. Throughout his ordeal he maintains his brother's childhood mantra: 'If you can take it, you can make it.'
Review:
A rags to fame career as an Italian urchin turned Olympic athlete, then forty-five days in an open boat, and finally a homo-erotic confrontation with a sadistic camp commandant: this film squeezes Chariots of Fire, Life of Pi and Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence into one movie and still finds time for an irrelevant bombing run. No wonder it nearly implodes under its own weight. To its credit, it never quite loses our attention and O'Connell is on flying form after a string of juicy roles, but frankly if it weren't based on a true story (the subject died the same year) it would be just too much!
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 137m
Director: Angelina Jolie
Cast: Jack O'Connell, Miyavi, Domhnall Gleeson, Jai Courtney
Synopsis:
An Olympic runner is shot down over the Pacific during WW2 and taken prisoner by the Japanese. Throughout his ordeal he maintains his brother's childhood mantra: 'If you can take it, you can make it.'
Review:
A rags to fame career as an Italian urchin turned Olympic athlete, then forty-five days in an open boat, and finally a homo-erotic confrontation with a sadistic camp commandant: this film squeezes Chariots of Fire, Life of Pi and Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence into one movie and still finds time for an irrelevant bombing run. No wonder it nearly implodes under its own weight. To its credit, it never quite loses our attention and O'Connell is on flying form after a string of juicy roles, but frankly if it weren't based on a true story (the subject died the same year) it would be just too much!
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 137m
Director: Angelina Jolie
Cast: Jack O'Connell, Miyavi, Domhnall Gleeson, Jai Courtney
Synopsis:
An Olympic runner is shot down over the Pacific during WW2 and taken prisoner by the Japanese. Throughout his ordeal he maintains his brother's childhood mantra: 'If you can take it, you can make it.'
Review:
A rags to fame career as an Italian urchin turned Olympic athlete, then forty-five days in an open boat, and finally a homo-erotic confrontation with a sadistic camp commandant: this film squeezes Chariots of Fire, Life of Pi and Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence into one movie and still finds time for an irrelevant bombing run. No wonder it nearly implodes under its own weight. To its credit, it never quite loses our attention and O'Connell is on flying form after a string of juicy roles, but frankly if it weren't based on a true story (the subject died the same year) it would be just too much!