The Great Raid (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]

The Great Raid (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray] Review

Nothing to add to the complete summaries in some reviews and the general approval with which they approach the film. It follows the traditional pattern of American War films but the action sequences and underplayed roles gave it a feeling of authenticity not always found in the genre. While the action is heated for only a short while, it sparks the picture. The acting is nicely underplayed allowing no room for a shift of attention from the roles played to the actors playing them. Admirably, despite having 60 years distance from the events, the creative staff managed to keep its focus on the perspective one might have had watching this film during that war when we knew that men and women were still to be sacrificed to the megalomania of a leadership group striving to make their nation the center of THE ONLY great Pacific power. So far as I could tell, while there was a need for fictionalization of precise facts and figures, the more general picture was as it might well have been.
All in all, this is a picture which grips one and also reminds us that neither the European nor the Pacific allies of the Axis fought by Marquis of Queens-berry rules. The result was, as is almost always the case: their unrestrained brutality brought a much greater unrestrained brutality on the part of the United States and its allies. Real wars generate real hatred for the enemy.
I should mention that there is little in the film to disturb younger viewers. While not a family picture, it can be seen by the family which might take on some of the questions which it raises in our minds.

The Great Raid (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray] Feature

• ISBN13: 0786936716900
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

The Great Raid (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray] Overview

Miramax The Great Raid (Blu-Ray) In the epic traditionof "Saving Private Ryan," "The Great Raid" is an inspirational true story of the most triumphant rescue mission in U.S. military history! As World War II rages, the elite 6th Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war. Under the command of Lt. Col. Henry Mucci (Benjamin Bratt - "Traffic"), the men of the 6th will face the unthinkable by attempting the impossible! Also featuring James Franco ("Spider-Man 1 & 2"), Connie Nielsen ("Gladiator"), and Joseph Fiennes ("Shakespeare In Love"), this gripping big-screen hit captures a moment in time when men of honor became soldiers of destiny!

The Great Raid (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray] Specifications

Nearly three years after it was filmed, The Great Raid finally appeared as a welcome reminder that good old-fashioned World War II movies never go out of style. While lacking the scale, prestige, and pulse-pounding momentum of Saving Private Ryan, this fact-based war drama benefits from a back-to-basics approach to realism and a rousing rescue climax that more than compensates for the slower passages that precede it. Adapted from the books The Great Raid on Cabanatuan and Ghost Soldiers, it chronicles the five-day mission (in late January 1945) to rescue 511 American prisoners of war held by the Japanese at Cabanatuan POW camp in the Philippines. Under the direction of neo-noir specialist John Dahl (The Last Seduction), the film's three-part structure follows the raid mission led by Lt. Col. Mucci (Benjamin Bratt); the plight of the POWs at Cabanatuan, including malaria-stricken Maj. Gibson (Joseph Fiennes); and civilian resistance in Manila as carried out by real-life hero and Gibson's (fictional) would-be lover Margaret Utinsky (Connie Nielsen), whose effort to aid the POWs is vigilantly monitored by the enemy Japanese. In keeping with war-movie traditions, Dahl handles character and action with no-nonsense intelligence, favoring a slow build over pumped-up adrenalin. By the time the miraculous rescue is executed with critical assistance by Filpino guerillas, The Great Raid has earned its stripes, honoring the brave men who carried out the most successful rescue mission in U.S. military history. --Jeff Shannon

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