When a bridge becomes a symbol

Rating: 9/10 (31 August 2009)

At nearly three hours, this is truly an epic film. But it is so well made that you hardly notice the length.
Excellent historical fiction set during WWII in a Japanese prison camp in southeast Asia where POWs are forced to help build the Burmese Railway. In the heat of the jungle, tensions build, and basic philosophical differences between the Japanese, British and American approach to warfare come to a head.
It is a war film, with action and intrigue, but it also explores themes of duty, honor, goals, motives, leadership and humanity's capacity for creation & destruction.
Must be seen in widescreen to be fully appreciated.