Even the Japanese couldn't break him.

Rating: 7/10 (5 February 2016)

"Unbroken" - Angelina Jolie's second movie as a director, is based on the incredible true live story of the Italian-American Olympic athlete Louis Zamperini (Jack O'Connell), who finished 8th in the Olympic Games in Berlin 1936. Alas everything changes after he joins the US Army as a bombardier. Given orders to go on a rescue and a search mission over the Pacific , Louis' plane crashes into the ocean due to a technical problem, leaving him and two of his fellows alone in the open sea with no food and water. They have to survive on an inflatable boat, which is their only protection from the bloodthirsty sharks. The three survivors, after 47 days of eating fish and drinking rain water, are fortunately, or maybe unfortunately (as Louis says "I have good and bad news, friend") are found by the Japanese navy and then put in war prison in Japan.
Unfortunately the movie is not as good as good as the true story. I was confused, because so much things happen in the first one hour of the movie that leaves you thinking "What the hell happened?". You can not really decide whether this is a sports movie, a survival story, a war movie or a drama one? Maybe It is everything mingled together, but this time, the Coen brothers , who are recognized widely for their movies "No Country for Old Men" and "True Grit", failed to give us this kind of epic screenplay they used to.
Even thought Jolie is still getting into the Directing insides, "Unbroken" is a good try-out for her.