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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

I read the book and laughed and cried with these men, and Angelina Jolie raced through this like she had a checklist. I could hear her yelling OK NEXT SCENE! the parts that were touching, were overlooked, and the parts that made you care were skipped over. The rescue from the raft skipped entirely and was tantamount to explaining their survival. This movie left me feeling empty, wondering if anyone involved actually read the lifechanging book from whence it was born. Characters you should hate and have nightmares about, left you feeling nothing. These were REAL MEN. HEROES. The team that did band of brothers could have made this into something that changed history of cinema, instead we got a hollow outline, that left me tired and a little bored. What a waste. Read the book Instead. I love movies and hate those who always claim the book is better but in this case, no truer words were ever spoken.

After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini 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. Despite some good heartfelt moments and a good perfomance from Jack O'Connell Angelina Jolie's Unbroken doesn't hit the dramatic impact that it might wanted to give since it's long, it moves slow and some of the casting choices are not that good. Overall a film that sounded interesting in mind but was handled rather poorly on Screen. (5/10)

'Unbroken' is a great film, helped immensely by the fact it's based on an almost-unbelievable true story. Laura Hillenbrand's novel was one of the best I've read in the last three years and while the movie isn't quite as great (they never are!), the story of Louis Zamperini (O'Connell)'s extremely eventful life from 1936-1945 truly needs to be seen to be believed. Quick synopsis: he learns to run, goes to the Olympics, joins the U.S. Air Force during WWII, is shot down, stranded at sea (for seven weeks!), eventually captured by the Japanese and spends over two years in a POW camp. Sounds impossible, but what's more astonishing is that he then went on to live for another 70 years!Jolie's directing debut is solid, with some nice transitions from the current to his past and the narrative moving along at a good pace for the first 90min. my one issue with the film is that the final 45min or so drag a little, as although there's plenty going on during his time in the POW camps (i.e. mostly inhumane torture), the film seems to lose a bit of it's spark. Brisbane/Moreton Bay does a good job of standing in for the South Pacific too!This is not so much a film about war, as about survival, courage and hope. There's so many times when he could have just given in and let all the terrible things happening to him defeat him, but he doesn't. It's truly amazing to know it actually happened! The ending is handled well and the actors - particularly Ishihara as the psychopathic 'Bird' - are solid.

Expertly directed by Angelina Jolie, "Unbroken" is the true story of U.S. soldier Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell) who survived weeks in a raft in the ocean after a plane crash, then is taken prisoner by Japanese soldiers and brutalized by the commander of the P.O.W. camp.A dangerous bombing run, an attack by Japanese Zeros, a search and rescue operation that turns into a disaster, the agonizing weeks of starvation and thirst in a life raft, flashbacks of Zamperini's troubled childhood and redemption, and the never ending days of torment in two Japanese P.O.W. camps give the audience insight to who this amazing person is and how he was able to survive the hardships during World War II.My most memorable, movie moment of "Unbroken" is the scene when O'Connell is in the life raft with two of his friends who also survived the plane crash; there is a wicked storm and each wave is as big as a three-story house. O'Connell grips tightly on the ropes attached to the raft, praying to God to help him make it through this horror."Unbroken" is a story made more powerful because it is true. Both the beauty and ugliness of the human spirit are shown, with the "better angels of our nature" winning.Mannysmemorablemoviemoments