In case you didn't know war is hell.

Rating: 4/10 (23 November 2016)

If you didn't know this is a Mel Gibson film you know soon enough. You'll know not because of an anti-Semitic rage, but the tramping over entrails scattered over the battlefield.
At just under two hours and twenty minutes the movie is too long. The battle scenes are long, brutal and redundant. The hero is often lost while soldiers take their toll. The Japanese are portrayed as fierce and sneaky. The line "they didn't make it" sums up the American attitude toward wounded prisoners.
If you take a date to this movie see it in a mall. When the action moves to Okinawa tell your date to go shopping and meet you in about an hour. The level of violence is extreme.
The end sequence featuring the real individuals is interesting and informative. There was one clip that looked like it was from "This is Your Life". If so they told the story in a half hour.
Looking for a good time at the movies this isn't it.