Grossly Overrated

Rating: Null/10 (1 November 2006)

When I first sat down to watch this film, I was expecting an engrossing portrayal of civilian life in a Japanese internment camp. Instead I wasted my time watching a load of cowardly English aristocrats, superhero yanks and a disturbed adolescent boy screaming his head off. Firstly I have not read Mr Ballard's book, but I seriously doubt whether any boy of his age at that time ran about acting like a three year old. Also the very strange way he can order the Japanese about. Good god, the Japanese prison camp guards were bloody sadists. Do you seriously think they'd take orders from a young boy who is an enemy. My backside they would. Another thing. Mr Spielberg seems to have a fetish for putting Brits, English people in particular as cowardly suck ups to Americans. This can be said of our current prime minister Mr T Blair, but not of your average Brit in the war. Absolute garbage, does not deserve any praise. Just a badly acted, stereotyped, film.