Good to see Pacific War..

Rating: 6/10 (9 March 2020)

Another fairly rare these days Pacific War movie is appreciated at least, of course the Pacific theatre and Japanese enemy has always played back seat to the European theatre in Hollywood in general.We in Australia would probably like to see more Pacific Theatre movies. I'd heard about the Cabantuan POW rescue raid,but did not know many details. A similar rescue of prisoners was tried in North Vietnam during Vietnam War, but although it reached the camp, the prisoners had been moved. In this movie, which I'd rate a fair effort without being brilliant, as often happens in Pacific War movies, the Japanese may be more convincing and authentic looking and acting than the Americans or Filipinos are in a WW2 context. (modern era war movies suffer continually with people who look and sound modern and not like people in 1944, even "Saving Private Ryan" had that problem) Glad the inaccuracy regarding the airplane that flyover the camp was mentioned in goofs here. It appears to be an Electra/ Hudson/Ventura style Lockheed twin-fin plane, although the US made such planes in large numbers, almost all were supplied to the RAF and British Commonwealth, very few were used by US forces at all, and highly unlikely one would have been flying anywhere near Philippines in 1944-45. Turns out the actual airplane in this incident had been a Northrop P61 night-fighter, a comparatively rare WW2 type, none left flying these days, that would have been unavailable to producers.I think maybe something like a B24, B25/26 A20 or even a B17 may have looked more in-place than the Hudson did in this scene.
Probably the prisoners themselves including main characters in camp actually look in a little still too good a condition and too well groomed still to have been guests of the Emperor for 2-3 years.
Unless you have a personal interest in this chapter of WW2, just worth a look, is about the size of it.