At nearly three hours, this is truly an epic film. But it is so well made that you hardly notice the length.
Excellent historical fiction set during WWII in a Japanese prison camp in southeast Asia where POWs are forced to help build the Burmese...
- 16.February.2010
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- by: etragedy
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At nearly three hours, this is truly an epic film. But it is so well made that you hardly notice the length.
Excellent historical fiction set during WWII in a Japanese prison camp in southeast Asia where POWs are forced to help build the Burmese Railway. In the heat of the jungle, tensions build, and basic philosophical differences between the Japanese, British and American approach to warfare come to a head.
It is a war film, with action and intrigue, but it also explores themes of duty, honor, goals, motives, leadership and humanity's capacity for creation & destruction.
Must be seen in widescreen to be fully appreciated.
- 16.February.2010
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- by: etragedy
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Absolutely fantastic! Alec Guiness (before he was a Sir) is stunning and stirring as his character changes so slowly and so slyly that you won't notice it until you're shouting at the television screen, wondering why he's doing what he's doing--and...
- 20.March.2009
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- by: sethdellinger
- sethdellinger rated this movie0/10
Absolutely fantastic! Alec Guiness (before he was a Sir) is stunning and stirring as his character changes so slowly and so slyly that you won't notice it until you're shouting at the television screen, wondering why he's doing what he's doing--and then you realize what sort of change has happened to him. For most of the film, we are aware that we're building up to an intense ending...and indeed we are. The final 5 minutes do not disappoint, and make the 3 hour runtime well worth the wait. Not only do events come together in an explosive fashion, but all of the character changes we've been witnessing explode as well, in one of the most succesfully made films I've ever seen.
- 20.March.2009
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- by: sethdellinger
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an important classic
a great war film but more importantly a great drama. this movie will always be remembered because of the depths and complexities of it's characters. it's a rough movie but yet it carries a sent of innocence and an ode to the resilience of human...
- 06.January.2009
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- by: reiorion
- reiorion rated this movie0/10
an important classic
a great war film but more importantly a great drama. this movie will always be remembered because of the depths and complexities of it's characters. it's a rough movie but yet it carries a sent of innocence and an ode to the resilience of human spirit.
- 06.January.2009
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- by: reiorion
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