The original Unbroken is a very good movie that focuses on the pain both physical and psychological that Zamperini & his comrades suffered under the brutal Japanese camp commanders. The original had good and convincing actors.
This production was an unnecessary conclusion with a dull redemption storyline and a thick sickly sweet Disneyesque sugar coating of American Apple pie, Italian Mamma Mia Familia and Motivational commercial Jesus. "Run Zamperini Run" Nope. If this was meant to provide redemption and closure to a brutal story it didn't. Instead it trivialises the story into just the meanderings of just another alcoholic vet with PTSD thrown on the rubbish heap of post war America. This was to make those that sent boys to war less guilty. "Oh well, it all turned out all right in the end didn't it?, Thanks to Jesus, Spaghetti and good old American forgiveness"
A dreary, superfluous melodrama set against a polished, pretentious, Hollywood kitsch version of post war Middle America.
This production was an unnecessary conclusion with a dull redemption storyline and a thick sickly sweet Disneyesque sugar coating of American Apple pie, Italian Mamma Mia Familia and Motivational commercial Jesus. "Run Zamperini Run" Nope. If this was meant to provide redemption and closure to a brutal story it didn't. Instead it trivialises the story into just the meanderings of just another alcoholic vet with PTSD thrown on the rubbish heap of post war America. This was to make those that sent boys to war less guilty. "Oh well, it all turned out all right in the end didn't it?, Thanks to Jesus, Spaghetti and good old American forgiveness"
A dreary, superfluous melodrama set against a polished, pretentious, Hollywood kitsch version of post war Middle America.