Simply Disappointing

Rating: 7/10 (23 October 2002)

John Woo messed up this film. The plot of this film could have given a much better movie, the director doesn't seems to catch the real human drama of those soldiers fighting in the pacific theater during WW2.
Also, this film intends to be pacifist; just like every war movie from "Saving private Ryan" by telling us that in a war everybody dies sooner or later and maybe that's true but come on let's have some originality. Another aspect that goes against the film are the special effects. Everybody knows that john Woo is known for the huge explosions depicted in his films but sometimes they're too much and this is one of those occasions. In this movie you'll see many times a hand grenade explode like an A-bomb or something like that.
In Short this film could have been a much better movie.