Worth seeing more than once, especially if you own the DVD.

Rating: 8/10 (16 June 2006)

Young Jim Graham from the film Empire of the Sun could easily earn some consideration for the top 100 movie characters of all time. Jim really propels this film forward and we are provided the opportunity to see this spoiled British child, separated from his parents in Hong Kong, grow into a crafty adolescent survivor struggling with life and death in a Japanese internment/prison camp during WWII.
Defining Moment worth seeing over and over again: Finds Jim up on the roof of a tall building staring transfixed into the sky as Mustang fighter pilots begin strafing and dive bombing the air strip dangerously close to his camp. You can almost taste the awe and majesty that Jim is experiencing when we see and hear him screaming out to speedy, attacking aircraft, "WOW, GO, P-51... Cadillac of the skies, P-51... Cadillac of the skies ...Horsepower...!!!" no soon after one fighter pilot smilingly waves back to him (with canopy open) in a surreal, slow motion "on the deck" fly by.