Over rated escape film!

Rating: 1/10 (23 September 2001)

Over rated action/drama WW 2 escape film that suffers from extreme HOLLYWOOD formula watering down directng style.The acting was good but the soundtrack was very condescending and the atmosphere had no grit at all.All this was done on purpose by the film makers though as they targeted a more artistically challenged GENERAL AUDIENCE crowd.A how to for DISNEY STYLE war films.The result is a movie that had potential to be a MASTERPIECE CLASSIC but merely achieves a good rating.Also,blatant script inconsistensies can be very irritating to intelligent people, like Charles Bronson masterfully digging incredible tunnels like a super human Mole,then all of a sudden inexplicably turns into a CLAUSRTROPHOBIAC for over dramatic effect?!Please!If you want a great WW 2 escape film,check out BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI,VICTORY or STALAG 17 for that matter........