Despite its age still worth to be seen.

Rating: 7/10 (7 April 2005)

I've always been a great fan of war movies and I won't let any chance pass to see one that I didn't see before. "From Here to Eternity" was one of those movies that I didn't see yet and even though it's kind of hard to call it a war movie, I'm very glad that I saw it. Why I don't want to call it a war movie? Mainly because most of the time it shows us life in a military camp during peace time. Only at the end of the movie, we get to see some 'war action' when the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor start.
As I already said, this movie shows us life during peace time, in 1941 at a military camp called Schofield in Hawaii. Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt had requested Army transfer and this is the base where he's stationed. His new captain, Dana Holmes, knows that Prewitt is an excellent boxer and wants him to represent the company at the next championship. But Prewitt has decided that he'll never ever fight another box match and nothing will make him change his mind, not even when Holmes gets his subordinates to make Prewitt's life a living hell. But not everybody hates him. His friend Maggio for instance takes him out for some drinks and introduces him in a social club, where he meets Lorene, one of the girls that work in the club. In the meantime Seargeant Warden starts seeing the captain's wife, whose marriage doesn't go to well, Maggio gets in trouble with the sadistic stockade Sergeant 'Fatso' Judson and the Japanese are preparing themselves for attacking the unsuspecting Americans...
What I really appreciated about this movie, was its somewhat naive innocence combined with a good story. For instance by the way how the men and women deal with each other in this film, you can see that this movie wasn't made in the nineties or later, but that it is a product of its time, the fifties. Nevertheless this is a very good movie that deserves to be seen even today. The acting is nice and the fact that they have used some authentic battle footage adds to the realism of this movie. I give it at least a 7/10, maybe even a 7.5/10.