Instead of a tribute to a fine chapter in the annals of the Greatest Generation, we have a second-rate romance right out of a cheesy, pulp fiction novel.
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05/25/07
The Great Raid (2005)
36 %
Reviews Counted: 114 Fresh: 41 Rotten:73 Average Rating: 5.3/10
Consensus:
Though the climax of the film -- the actual raid -- is exciting, the rest of it is bogged down in too many subplots and runs on for too long.
Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins
Theatrical Release: Aug 12, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $10,074,830
Synopsis: Director John Dahl switches genres from film noir (THE LAST SEDUCTION, RED ROCK WEST) to military actioner with THE GREAT RAID. Following the 1942 Bataan Death March, thousands of U.S. and Filipino soldiers were imprisoned by the Japanese in a POW camp in Cabantauan in the Philippines.... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Robert Mammone, Max Martini, Joseph Fiennes
Director: John Dahl
Screenwriter: Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro
Producer: Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Jonathan Gordon, Lawrence Bender, Marty Katz
Composer: Trevor Rabin
Screenwriter: Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro
Producer: Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Jonathan Gordon, Lawrence Bender, Marty Katz
Composer: Trevor Rabin
Reviews
A well-produced, rousing feature based on one of those forgotten World War II episodes that make for great cinema.
03/01/07
While the historical events depicted were unusual and cause for genuine celebration, the film that depicts these events is a dull, by-the-numbers set of war-movie clichés.
09/25/06
It moves slowly and methodically, showing us the minutest particulars of every facet of the operation. There's more here than we need to know.
12/28/05
The Great Raid has one amazing action sequence. You just have to watch the whole story in order to earn and appreciate it.
12/25/05
It couldn't hold my attention despite the event being such a celebrated one in American history.
12/01/05
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09/26/05
More of a skimpy skirmish that lasts way too short and has too little peril to be great
09/01/05
Might have gotten some attention if John Wayne had been around to star in it
08/22/05
For a man dying of malaria, Fiennes shivers impressively but also talks too much.
08/19/05
[D]eliciously old-fashioned... Like in how Dahl assembled a cast of perfectly 1940s faces that pop off the screen with a suave anti-Technicolor urgency...
08/18/05
John Dahl’s solemn staging of the rescue mission will likely earn him points from military aficionados, but The Great Raid is terminally dull.
08/16/05
The three unwieldy story lines might even have daunted someone like David Lean. They utterly defeat director John Dahl, a director used to working in miniature
08/15/05
'Nothing in our lives will ever be as important as this,' says Lt. Bratt, in a pep talk that some of his boys might have found more depressing than motivational.
08/15/05
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