When you get the job just because you're famous

Rating: 2/10 (10 May 2019)

I'm getting desperate!
The last four or five movies I've seen on Netflix have been very thin gruel and this one doesn't thicken it up at all.
The Terracotta Warriors could have done a better job than the entire cast, who admittedly have to handle a story that's been done a million times, 999,999 of which were better than this one.
Jolie obviously doesn't have a clue when it comes to directing and this movie has all the hallmarks of the boss being surrounded by yes men who are scared to call out lousy work.
OK , so the hero is an Olympian and knows how to suffer.. so do riders in the Tour-de- France, so did Arctic explorers (although they're volunteers)
His story is no different than all of the other POW's who had to endure those sadistic Japanese camps so why him?
This stinks of somebody waking up in the morning and saying to themselves " I want to make a movie.. doesn't matter what it's about, I just want to do it"
There's absolutely no plot or message, so it wanders aimlessly to an ending that looks like a New Year's review on the TV
I don't want to denigrate the terrible experiences that prisoners of the Japanese went through but this isn't the vehicle to show what incredible hardships these men suffered.