Rather sadistic

Rating: 5/10 (16 February 2019)

This film is based on the life of Louis Zamperini who was a U.S. runner in the 1936 Summer Olympics and later served in World War II in the battle against Japan.
There are many scenes well filmed by director Angelina Jolie and the film serves well as one person's difficult story during the war.
The main trouble overall is that the film spends too much time prolonging torture, torment, and humiliation scenes in a prison camp. Indeed, such information is important but the film could have reduced some of these difficult scenes and spent more of the film portraying how Zamperini managed to deal with the experiences after the worst times were over and how he managed to reconcile such torment.
A brief review of this film at Toronto's Now Magazine finished with the phrase "Strictly for Sadists". While, I don't completely agree with the comment, I fully understand it.