Overrated propaganda flick.

Rating: 5/10 (7 September 2005)

I'm not from US and maybe that's why I don't get overexcited with movies that show GI's as Superman/Mother Theresa crossbreeds that protect the weak and fight the evil. A mediocre propaganda flick with some good actors and a weak script, nothing exciting, can't even remember any particular scenes that are worth it. Though Hollywood has done it again, we have a new propaganda war movie in theaters that is about to become a classic the same way all overrated propaganda movies (Saving Private Ryan, We Were Soldiers, Black Hawk Down etc.) do. I'm no saying that The Great Raid is a bad movie or anything, it's watchable, but don't expect too much of it. The only pleasant surprise was to see that Hollywood has remembered that a war movie isn't all about shooting, dying and screaming in pain, though they have a very long way to go back to the level of the movies they made in sixties and seventies.