Unbroken (2014)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Angelina Jolie
	Actors: Jack O'Connell, Takamasa Ishihara
	Country: USA
	Genre: War, Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 12.01.2015, Schauburg, OV sneak preview
Synopsis: After a plane crash in WWII, Olympian runner Louie Zamperini (O'Connell) spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp where he becomes the "best friend" of tenant Watanabe (Ishihara). His struggle for life keeps strong over the years.
Review: This movie is one of the most expected by Hollywood in the coming Oscars 2015. And I do not understand why! Is it a question of celebrity, Angelina Jolie being director? Is it the realistic war movie similar to Saving Private Ryan? I do not know. The story of a hero becoming a nobody in a camp but still a hero resisting to the tenant does not touch me at all while Ryan did. The monotony of the story. A long part doing nothing in a boat. A long part being challenged or beaten by the tenant. It feels like a short film having been extended to more than two hours! Exhausting.  The main actor is by luck correct and a few scenes taken alone would have made a good short cut.
Rating: 3 /10