An absolute turkey.

Rating: 1/10 (18 February 2006)

This an appalling movie. Let's forget the anti Japanese racism and concentrate on the awful script, bewildered acting (clearly a lot of good actors had absolutely no idea what on earth was going on)and numerous scenes of wholly gratuitous violence and sadism. A ghastly mishmash of "Bridge on the River Kwai", "Saving Private Ryan" and "The Green Berets" without one iota of the talent required to produce at least the first two named movies. It actually makes "Return to the River Kwai" look like a classic.
I watched the first hour on DVD and gave up before I totally lost the will to live. An absolute stinker. No wonder it languished on the shelf for a couple of years before Miramax unloaded it prior to the take over.