Very good True Life Account

Rating: 8/10 (7 November 2016)

I don't understand all the negative reviews and it seems to be aimed at Miss Jolie. Exactly why is something only they would know but I watched this without even knowing who the director was and thought it was very well made. The story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic athlete captured by the Japanese navy after a plane crash in the Pacific during the second world war is a harrowing tale which left me constantly amazed at the resolve of humans in the face of unbelievable hardship and cruelty. Jack O'Connell acts well and is totally believable as are all of the cast. Miyavi seemed a little too feminine looking to be playing the evil camp overseer Watanabe who seemed to take personal delight in torturing Zamperini. What came across is how Watanabe was jealous of Zamperini and bitter about his own shortcomings. I guess it shows that during war the bullies who are nobody's in civilian life and then have some power become so evil. this has also been shown by accounts in Nazi concentration camps.
So over all I rate this as a very good film and about an amazing true life. Violent but not too graphic it is a tale of human resolve and desire to survive that many youths today would do well to study.