The direction and acting are first rate but the story follows the Hollywood formula for success - with very good good guys and very bad bad guys and the ending we all want to see. Too bad they didn't take the risk and use the real story (and quite possibly the original screenplay). There is a smell of script doctors here.
Nonetheless the cast was brilliant and many scenes were compelling. The film is definitely worth watching. It is good fiction but not a proper history lesson, unless viewed as pay-back for similarly slanted stories from the other side.
The ending brings up Hemingway's line, "Wouldn't it be pretty to think so."
Nonetheless the cast was brilliant and many scenes were compelling. The film is definitely worth watching. It is good fiction but not a proper history lesson, unless viewed as pay-back for similarly slanted stories from the other side.
The ending brings up Hemingway's line, "Wouldn't it be pretty to think so."