Very nice - to help you fall asleep

Rating: 5/10 (31 August 2018)

The focus on the daily life in a PoW camp full of Anglo-American prisoners from Shanghai is indeed a distinct aspect of the movie. Another positive part of the movie was of course the acting laid out by young Bale and Malcovich.
Whereas a good narrative would be enough to make this one a must-see World War II classic, after a while I felt like the narrative slowed down and started to focus on so many unnecessary details that I wished the end of the movie to come anytime soon after the first 90 minutes - and I'm pretty sure that I am on top 10% of the most patient people who have seen this piece. Indeed after a point I started to give the movie a second, a third, a fourth and so on chances but it never took any of them.
In a nutshell, a type of movie when you stay up late in front of the TV and run into while swapping channels, see talented actors in the cast and decide to give it a shot, then fall asleep while you watch it and don't care about the rest of it when you wake up.