They should just call this movie Torture

Rating: 4/10 (21 May 2015)

The movie ends with a a ColdPlay track. That alone should tell you something about Unbroken. It's sappy drama. If you have ever watched a movie and wondered how much of what you are watching is actually true, then add this to that list of titles. I can not stress enough the difference between a movie that is a true story and one that is based on a true story. This movie is certainly the latter.
What I think the creators were trying to do was to compare the torture that you experience running, with the torture you experience when going through extreme adversity. The problem was that the creators missed badly. They spent too much of the movie focusing on the adversity and not enough focusing on his youth, and his running, and his family, and the things that actually prepared him for his situation. I found myself saying "Ok that didn't really happen like that" multiple times in the movie. Even if it was true I stopped believing in it. And that is what we call losing your audience.
Just as you have had enough and you are preparing for the sappy ending, you get some of those "what happened off screen type credits" and then boom, cue ColdPlay. Disappointing movie to say the least. It would have been much more interesting if Angelina Jolie acted in the movie instead of directing it.