!Spoiler alert!

Rating: 4/10 (23 March 2015)

So like most of the reviewers I did read the book before I watched the movie. I would rate the book a 10, considering it is probably one of the best books I've read. Now on to the movie, I most definitely did not like how the scenes were out of place. I think if they had told the story in order it would've been much easier to follow. Second I feel a really important part of the book is missing from the movie. Jimmie Sasaki. Louie's friend who turned out to be a Japanese spy, that he later meets at a POW camp.. Where is he at all? As well as how The Bird would make the POWs be his buddy after brutal beatings. Another is how the movie dragged... I could not put the book down, but the movie seemed to drag on. The acting was phenomenal! But the story could've been told much better. I would have been more than happy to sit through a 3 hour movie that kept me on my toes like the book, than sitting through the 2 hour movie that just didn't keep me as interested. I think the movie should've gone on to his post war life a little more than it did because he had a tremendous turnaround. And one last point before I end my tangent, it never shows the few guards that were nice to them? I think that really would've tugged at my heart had I seen that in the movie.