Unemotional

Rating: 5/10 (22 June 2015)

It just wasn't a very exciting film.
It's not that I didn't like it or watch it all the way through, except that by the time the final credits rolled I was at my least emotional point. I didn't care for it. The guy suffered in various ways, through being shot down in a plane and losing most of his mates, being stranded on a raft for 45 days, abused in prison for an extended period of time, and then abused even more in an even worse prison - and then the film ended and we're supposed to feel what, exactly? Elated, by the Coldplay song? I felt flat, that's all. It should have been called 'Misery' by Stephen King.
It's war. Some people get captured, wounded or killed. But above all, it's pretty miserable!
I'm not going to write a long review because I didn't get emotionally hooked into it. It was on a par with any standard POW movie, like Stalag 17 from 1953, for example, but without any of the camaraderie, subtle humour and hope.
It had all the ingredients of a really good film, but wasn't.