I Want Half My Money Back

Rating: 3/10 (27 December 2014)

The only people who will like this movie are those who haven't read the book. Those who have read the book will leave the theatre wondering why the movie stopped when the war ended (although it was plenty long). Why didn't it follow Zamperini through his plunge into depression and alcoholism? But deep inside, the viewer will know why. Zamperini was saved from his post-war self destruction by turning to God to Whom he was reintroduced by none other than evangelist Billy Graham. The film makers must have thought that part of Zamperini's biography would be too cornball for movie goers so they told only the story of his physical survival and, sadly, not the many times more important story of the survival of his soul.