Could be great but ends up decent.

Rating: 5/10 (17 April 2015)

I rate the movie as a weak five of ten. I felt like the Zamperini portrayed in the film wasn't convincing. And not to my surprise, the real story beats the sugar coated adaptation of it for the movie. To begin with, the young Zamperini wasn't a suicidal young teenager, he was a fighter, a young man who ended up bullying his tormentors. There are many spots in the movie where the real story would have made better sense, and actually would have made the movie so much better. Louis Zamperini was a colorfull fighter, at times somewhat of a antihero, in this movie he is portrayed as a very beigue lump of insipidness. I think Angelina and the team behind the movie got caught up in the hero aura of this great man, forgetting that the true story would have given us something much more than a fictitious hero, we would have seen a real one. The craft in pure movie-making would easily lay the foundations of a 8-9 rating, but the otious way the story has been beautified, just makes it bland. Tell the real story, when it is as great as it is in this case.