First, to ccthemovieman-1: What you think you know and what you have heard or even read about P.O.W.'s is not going to be accurate. If this movie were to be 100% accurate, it probably would have to have been rated X due to the violence/torture. No movie will ever show what our men really went through. Try to picture an accurate movie made about Laura Hillenbrand's book "UNBROKEN". It's a factual account about Louis Zamperini at the hands of brutal and sadistic Japanese captors during WWII. (punched hard in the face hundreds of times in ONE DAY; hit in the head by a heavy belt buckle swung on a belt by "The Bird" dozens of times...) No, movieman, this movie is not an actual reenactment. I saw no torture at all in this movie. The men huddling together talking almost constantly? Walking freely about the camp? Not how it went down in P.O.W. camps. Some of the men would go YEARS between seeing/talking to each other. I have the book, but it's been a while since I read it. The movie? Keep in mind, this is Hollywood, which is not known to be accurate. Not many ex-P.O.W's will even talk about what happened, so most of you Pogues just go by what Rambo and Chuck Norris do in the movie(s). P.O.W. camps anywhere (except U.S. run ones) were very brutal. Most men died from sickness and starvation. Movieman, take it easy on this movie. It's just Hollywood. You will never know what happened to our men/Allies unless you read "Unbroken". A must read. It was kinda strange seeing Charlie Manson in a P.O.W. camp, though.
Review of Rescue Dawn
