Uninspired

Rating: 5/10 (14 December 2017)

Angelina Jolie aims to direct a prestige film with a stirring score and a screenplay that involved the Coen Brothers.
Unfortunately you get a film that has seen it all before written all over it, a film that lacks depth and some of its pure hokum The scene where Zamperini's fellow POWs are forced to line up and beat him up is just so laughably bad and Jolie makes sure the final scene is bathed in sunset colours and never realised it was all utter tosh.
Jack O'Connell gives a spirited performance as Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic athlete turned bomber pilot who crashes, he and his crew survive for days in the sea before being captured and sent to a Japanese POW camp.
We have little idea why the camp commander takes a dislike to Zamperini and why he shows such brutality towards him but Zamperini stoically and defiantly takes it all. I do think he deserved a better a film.