What is this Movie About?

Rating: 1/10 (27 March 2007)

Sheer torture to watch. Chock full of anachronisms, bad history, excruciating dull stretches,miserable acting and not even a sense of impending doom or agony. Plays like an Oliver Twist in a prison camp for Anglo foreigners in China.The Chinese are made out to be ignorant and stupid-reduced to bad "Charlie Chan" stereotypes while the Japanese are glorified. Why would a Brit kid worship the Japanese flyers when his own country produced the more that capable English flyers with their great Spitfires and Hurricanes who whipped the crap out of the Germans in the Battle of Britian?Also, all those people in their finest clothes wandering about the camp among their possessions and cars? What does THAT signify? Spielberg tried to prove that he was Academy Award material with this one> Truth of the matter is this film is the cinematic version of a Mc Donalds hamburger- no substinance in it anywhere. True, Spielberg did produce Shindlers List a few years after this abortion, but aside from that the body of his work is truly designed for mass appeal-his name will guarantee big bucks at the box office. There really is no reason to give up three hours of your life to watch this. Read a good book on the subject instead.A waste of celluloid. Zero stars.