longest 3 hours of my life.

Rating: 2/10 (19 June 2000)

Without doubt this film was the longest 3 hours of my life, and while this film focused strongly on the introspective, and the fears and worries of the characters personal lives,we don`t really get a chance to build an empathy with them. Although I must admit Ben Chaplin`s American accent was very believable, and George Clooney got the shortest cameo in the world ever. Maybe my vision has been tainted some what by films like "Saving Private Ryan" and "Platoon", but I found this film totally unengaging. Combined with the fact that this film could have been based in the Second World War, Vietnam war or the banana U boat war, because you can`t tell - other than it`s in the pacific. I found the film slow and muddled and left me wishing I`d done that extra batch of laundry i`d promised to do.