I was hoping for much more.

Rating: 7/10 (27 April 2015)

A December 14 2014 story by Laura Silverman in The Telegraph had the tag line "Louis Zamperini ran in the Olympics, spent 47 days in a life raft and survived two and a half years in Japanese prisoner of war camps, but it's his victory over anger that continues to inspire others." Unfortunately, the movie concentrated entirely on the first part of that idea and not at all on the latter part.
I'm not a religious man myself, but I was very anxious to see how AJ was going to portray that part of Louis' life in this movie. She did it with a couple of sentences on screen at the end of the film. Disappointing.
I loved the book, and I commend Angelina Jolie for her attempt to bring the story to the screen. What she did put on film was pretty darn good. I just wanted more.
If they can split the Hobbit into 3 movies (and the final Twilight book into 2, for cryin' out loud!), Unbroken should have been a two part epic.