Useless Waste of Film

Rating: Null/10 (10 March 2002)

The first 20 - 30 minutes of film in this movie (which is probably the most well done) is absolutely superfluous. It has no correlation to the main plot of the movie except to show how a man gets into a prison camp. The director should have cut it from the script and started the whole damn thing inside the POW camp. Although the first section is very well done, it misleads the viewer to what the movie is actually going to be about so that once the court scenario is thrown in, the viewer is left confounded as to its importance. Bruce Willis' character is so unlikeable that the ending leaves me neither sad, happy or indifferent; I just didn't care. The movie might have been pretty good should it have been kept at under 100 minutes or so, because that's all that was necessary.