Yawn inducing history lesson

Rating: 1/10 (15 August 2005)

THE GREAT RAID (2005) * Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Connie Nielsen, Joseph Fiennes. Incredibly dull and boring interpretation of a fact-based rescue mission during WWII to save over 500 American POWS in the Japanese infested Philippines that truly deadens the senses in this laborious and uninvolving melodrama from filmmaker John Dahl and a leaden screenplay by Carlo Bernard and Doug Miro with clichés aplenty, interchangeable unknown actors (never identified by character's names to boot!) and wooden acting that completely overwhelms this underwhelming reject from the likes of The History Channel. Yawn inducing history lesson that surely deserved better in its delivery; otherwise forgettable.