Good movie, better then I thought!

Rating: Null/10 (27 January 2003)

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Think of this movie as a great piece of war! The environment is lovely with big battles, set on a Japanese islands. I didn't think this film was made of John Woo, because he usually do this films with a lot of cinematic visual effects for ex. Mission Impossible 2. So how will this look in a world war 2 movie? Was one of my thoughts...The thing is that Woo doesn't over use these spectacular events now, thank god. He uses them with a nice finger tip feeling, that is absolutely perfect!
The actors performance was very good too in my opinion. Nicholas Cage acting is most of the time quite "the same" no matter what movie he does, but he does his part well in WT, nothing more.. Christian Slater has only a minor role as Cages team member, which is sad because he is a good actor. And of course Peter Stormare one of Swedens "pride in acting", has a role as an officer in command. Stormare does his minor role with strength and he really is a good leader. The sound is very good with a lot of big explosions. Any of you that has a good Home Cinema sound: rent this movie! Only the sound by it self has enough strength to give you a strong feeling of real war.

I seems a bit strange that so many dislike this movie, because everything; acting, realism, sound, picture is profound., So my grade is: 8/10. If you like war and realism, rent this movie!