good film but......

Rating: 7/10 (10 August 2015)

Unbroken (2014) is a fairly good war - drama based on the life of Louis Zamperini. I've heard so much about how great this movie was and every time I was told this I went to watch the movie and something just kept me from doing it. I did finally watch this movie and I'm still rather unsure my full feelings on it based on what I was told about it before seeing it for myself; but I'll do my best without spoiling it. I have to give a ton of credit to Angelina Jolie for doing a great job directing as well as being one of the producers on this film. The story was fairly well played out and the acting well.... that's a different story. In the beginning of the movie I do believe that someone could've got a better make-up department as a lot of the makeup on the main characters were so much over done that they stuck out like a sour thumb, and the younger actors portraying "Louis" well they weren't so good in the acting department. Other than those two items for the most part the movie was pretty well stable the rest of the way through.
Now as I was saying about the film not being what I was told by everyone well that is certain. The part that has me wondering after watching this is that they're thousands and thousands of war heroes who went through similar if not worse experiences that made it home from the war; "Should they all have movies too"? I guess my confusion in this story is where does "Louis Zamperini" differ from most all other war vets? Other than that the movie was pretty good, and told a very fair story.