A waste of time

Rating: 3/10 (8 August 2007)

Someone in their comments of this film mentions it's timing, that it came out at the same time as 'Saving Private Ryan'. Personally I wish it had never came out at all. I decided to watch it on video a while ago, and thought it was the most pointless war film I had ever seen at the time (The most pointless war film now is the 2005 effort 'The Last Drop'). I am not someone who has to have nonstop gore to enjoy a war film, if the story is good then that is fine by me. This film just didn't seem to have a story, it just seems to have been made as the directors own version of the Guadalcanal campaign, which doesn't seem to match the true story, (and yes I have read the book it is based on). The only level the film worked for me was as a travel brochure for a holiday to a tropical island.