Last Saturday night my son and I were able to watch a sneak preview of the movie, The Great Raid, which opens this weekend. It's a movie based upon a true story of the rescue of American solders held in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in the Philippines. It starts with documentary footage of the Pearl Harbor sneak attack, the fall of Corregador and Batan in the Philippines and the Batan death march. These prisoners are the survivors of that death march. After watching the Japanese soldiers in this movie you don't feel guilty about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As they used to say" we paid them back with interest" and saved a lot of American lives. As an avid reader of the history of WWII, the acts of the Japanese in this movie are an accurate depiction of what happened during the war. For a good review go to http://www.moviesforguys.com/movie.php?Review=530 or go to www.imdb.com and type in The Great Raid. There are three stories in one that are intertwined. One story deals with the American prisoners, one about the Philippine resistance and one about the American Army Ranger unit that did the rescue. The years may have dulled our memory of the war in the Pacific but we should never forget that evil is something we have had to deal with through out our history. We beat it then and we will beat it now. It really puts Abu Ghurayb and Gitmo in perspective. I enjoyed the move a great deal and give it four stars **** out of five. Hint.... don't leave the movie during the ending credits! No one left the theater at the sneak preview I attended.
Review Update:
Fox News, Roger Ailes, Chairman & CEO: "The best war movie to be produced in years. It's wrapped in courage,patriotism and honor. In these troubled times, young and old alike should see this film. It's a reason to go back to movie theaters!" Even liberal Ebert and Roeper give it "Two thumbs Up"
