Wildly improbable

Rating: 2/10 (1 July 2019)

If this was really based on actual events as they happened I will eat my shorts. As a number of people have pointed out, not only is a 100 foot sheer cliff very topographically unlikely except on a beach, how on earth did the Japanese allow a climbing net being erected on it and then not simply chop it down? "Duh" the Americans are climbing up to kill us so we will allow them to do it. A competent machine gunner could have mowed them down as they appeared at the top anyway, as shown in reverse when the Jap soldiers appear at the edge in pursuit of Doss and are shot to bits by the Americans below. I really hate unrealistic films especially those claiming to show reality!
BTW Braveheart was not a great movie, it also claimed to be realistic and compeletely departed from historical reality. An exciting movie maybe.