4.5 stars out of 5 stars
The movie Unbroken starring Jack O'Connell follows the life of a troubled child who goes on to be high school track star, to olympic gold medalist, and to finally a World War 2 soldier. His family was the new family in town and beings that they were Italian he got bullied in school. As a middle schooler, due to the bullying, he turned to alcohol and cigarettes but once his family found out, his brother made him run and eventually made him join the track team in high school. He was better than anybody expected and eventually went to the olympics and won the gold medal for the United States. After that, he joined the Air Force and became a gunner for the fighter planes that ran bombing missions.
His plane was shot on a mission and while flying back, both the planes engines went out and they crashed over the ocean. Him and three other soldiers survived and used the life rafts that were in a pack in the plane. They were at sea for around 47 days, losing one of their soldiers to dehydration, before being captured by Japanese soldiers and put into a P.O.W. camp. There, they were abused by the Corporal in charge known as The Bird, because he heard everything.
The bird was then promoted and moved to a different P.O.W. camp. Later, the P.O.W. camp was under fire from attack planes, however they did not get to the American P.O.W.’s. The Japanese moved the soldiers to a coal mine P.O.W. camp for them to carry and shovel coal. The person in charge of the coal mine camp was of course... The bird. Jack O’Connell continued to be abused by the bird because he refused to obey him. The America ended up winning the war, and resulted in the release of the captive Americans. When Jack got home he rejoined with his family, and eventually, ran in the Olympics one more time, carrying the torch.
I gave it a 4.5 because it failed to get me interested in other characters, so when they died, I didn't feel anything and I often found myself asking which character was which. Also, the Japanese are very honor based in real life, however in this movie the Japanese are cruel to the prisoners and often beat them for no reason. Whether that be because they were prisoners or not I just thought that they portrayed the Japanese as monsters who looked for little reasons to beat prisoners. Other than that, the movie was good and it kept me interested until the end.
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Well done!