Too much invested as viewer: Conclusion lacking

Rating: 5/10 (29 December 2014)

I have do say that Jolie's directing was rather good. My issues was with the writing and the screenplay. Very accurate and true to the life events of Louis Zamperini during WWII. I felt the use of flashbacks in the beginning done quite strategically well and helped move through transitions smoothly. It was downhill from here as the tale of his encampment in a Japanese POW prison took over. Although intense and tactfully filmed and written, it drew out too long in relation to the conclusion. All the evil and pain suffered in this act of the show did have me invested in the conclusion. Here, the transitions became rather drawn out and clumsy. Then, a rather short scene when the end of imprisonment came.
Unfortunately, I feel the conclusion was, to me, similar to the wrapping of a white elephant gift, no big deal. With a few short sentences and a brief clip of Louis 70 years later, a large part of the life story (and the most important, in my opinion) is not given respect or credence. I felt to have invested so much in the man and his trials they were cheapened by a quip of a conclusion.
This movie is entertaining but be prepared for the let down of being unable to celebrate a Tolkien "eutastrophe" (as he would put it) and have ingrained in the viewer only despair and torment with little reward of a joyful victory, which in Louis' life, was to occur decades later in his challenging path to forgive his tormentors.