Worst marketing EVER!

Rating: Null/10 (18 November 2002)

some of you may be wondering why so many people here are giving this movie bad reviews. well I'll tell ya why: this movie was advertised as an action-saturated remake of The Great Escape, when in fact it's not that at all. when I saw the trailers for this, I thought it was going to be another mindless hollywood piece of crap. I only ever ended up seeing it because I saw my roommates copy lying on the coffee table. this is actually an exceptionally original movie for either the POW camp genre, or the war movie genre as a whole. it is not about action, and now that I think about it, (a few explosions aside) it has less action than The Great Escape did! this is really a riveting courtroom drama, that just happens to be set in a POW camp. it is full of surprising twists and turns (some of which were revealed here by some of the less considerate people that frequent this site), and is completely unpredictable. in fact, I dare say it's the most clever courtroom drama since Witness to the Prosecution.
someone here said this this film was full of cliches. I've seen alot of movies, and I've seen all the movies that spawned the war/POW camp movie cliches, and this had none of them, except in the most incidental areas. please don't review a movie until you've seen it, okay?