Unbelievable

Rating: 2/10 (4 August 2016)

I would not have thought it possible for anyone to suck the life out of a story so vital as Zamperini's, but Angelina Jolie has proved me wrong. With this film, she has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and turned one of the most compelling true stories of all time into a boring, flat, and almost entirely uninspired mash-up of disjointed vignettes. The acting is lousy, the cinematography is uninspired, the score is stereotypical and overly romanticized, the costumes and sets are sterile reproductions that harm the films realism almost as much as its unimpressive CGI, the writing is atrocious, the traditional Hollywood pastiche of airbrushed patriotism is tiresome, and the direction is horrendous. Do yourself a favor and skip this mess. Hopefully a good filmmaker will come along in a few years and do the story justice... Until then, it'd be best to pretend this abomination was never made.