Promising, but ends up being pointless

Rating: 2/10 (12 January 2008)

There's only one good thing about this movie: It feels like a great movie. Everything has been paid for, actors, props and music. There's gunfire and love story. Sad moments and happy moments.
Unfortunately, this isn't enough for a good war movie. Although created by almost impossible-to-miss formula, this one misses its target by a mile. Why? It's boring. Even with 1,5 hours of tiresome explaining what's going to happen, some things still remain unclear. Even worse, viewer won't care a bit about those. The movie wastes about 90% of it to build something up, and it gets really boring and irritated, with all those string melodies to support this and flood of dialogs boring enough to be rejected by low-class soap opera director.
Then, finally, this something finally starts. And this "something" turns out to be a dark, quick, boring firefight without any action or content. Actually, it's made of 3 scenes: Gun fires in darkness, Japanese solider falls down, and something explodes. Repeating again and again. Well, and one tiny close combat scene. And thats it!
And that's it. A war movie? An action movie? A thriller?
Soap opera. And a boring one, by the way.