Inconsistent Movie

Rating: 5/10 (2 January 2015)

Unbroken is a movie that is very inconsistent. First off, the first twenty-thirty minutes of the movie includes flashbacks of the main character to his old life and his Olympic days. However, at a certain point, these flashbacks are abruptly taken from the movie, and no development of the past story is made. There is not even a scene in which the main character decides to join the military... he is running a race, then all of a sudden he is just in the plane in the war. This is a very fragmented story structure that remains inconsistent with continuity errors such as these throughout the movie. The acting is nothing special, but if I had to say the best performance was by the main character's army mate who was captured with him. The leader of the prison camp gave one of the worst performances of the year, and I often found myself laughing at his facial expressions. The soundtrack is the one thing in the movie that I can actually say had the power to blow me away. The movie would be much lesser if it did not have such a suitable score.
The thing about this movie that I have been trying to say is that it is not awful and it is not perfect. It is just so inconsistent in every sense of the word that eventually it is just nothing special and pretty forgettable. This film could have been much shorter if it did not show the same exact scene of characters being beaten to a pulp for half of the movie. As I said, there is little room for development, which makes us not really care for the characters and makes it hard for us to feel what Jolie wanted us to feel towards certain topics. For example, when we are supposed to almost sympathize with the Japanese near the end, I felt no reason to do so because nothing in the movie made me want to; it was just shoehorned in to add something to make the movie longer.
Overall, I'd say this movie was entertaining, but it is by no means perfect. I would say you can wait for it to be on Netflix to watch. GRADE: C+