Unbroken Hit all the Right Marks

Rating: 9/10 (18 January 2015)

My fiancé and I took both my children to see unbroken so the demographic was two 50 year old adults, a 14 year old boy and a 16 year old girl. We all came away impressed with Unbroken. That in itself should say something that the critics cant. The combat scenes were extremely intense and kept you on the edge of your seat. Even though you know the Liberator crew is going to crash, you can't help but feel the sorrow of the loss of the plane and its crew. Shipwrecked at sea in a rubber raft, you relate with the lost crew, are embroiled in their loss and sorrow and frightened when they are attacked by sharks. The POW scenes accurately evoke the pain and hopelessness these men must have felt. Most striking and personal for me, the scene where a prisoner trips and falls to his death, instantly reminded me of my own grandfathers tales of tramping over the dead in a Russian POW camp in WW2, helpless to help. I've heard some reviewers comment that the movie was OK but lacking. I personally found it historically accurate, beautifully shot and directed and emotionally accurate. If you're expecting a happy go lucky concentration camp movie, don't go. Its a hard watch and will bring you to tears.