Incredible Film!!!

Rating: 9/10 (21 July 2019)

Everything about this film is great. I grew up in the 1950's and saw all those, now lost, films about WWII and the US against the Japanese. The Japanese are our friends now; but in the 1940's -- not so much. The Japanese actors did a fantastic job of portraying the WWII 'Japs' as a cruel enemy -- as well as those old films of the late 1940's and 1950's.. Well done all! Connie Nielsen is ALWAYS fantastic as just a bit of eye-candy -- and a great actress to boot.
Don't pay much attention to the critics who tended to give the film a so-so rating -- other than Roger Ebert -- who gave the film 3 stars. This film has suspense, well done action scenes, and believable prisoner conditions. For those who don't know their History -- this is the last resort after President Roosevelt decided NOT to rescue 60K Filipinos and 10K US troops resulting in "The Bataan Death March". The Japs were then going to kill ALL prisoners as our troops were closing in rapidly in '44-'45. This was a rescue attempt, a real one, of one of those Japanese prisons.
Well done all!!!!!!!