The Great Raid Movie Review 2005

Workmanlike retelling of the 1944 rescue of more than 500 American POWs from a Japanese prison camp located in a remote area of the Philippines. You've got the outside planners, Army Rangers Mucci (Bratt) and Prince (Franco) and their Filipino allies, led by Pajota (Montano); the insiders, led by malaria sufferer Gibson (Fiennes); and nurse Margaret (Nielsen), who's also a resistance leader. Film has a looooong build-up before the raid comes off, which dissipates the tension. Completed in 2002, flick sat on the Miramax shelves until its brief 2005 big screen release.

Distribution

Miramax Film Corp., 8439 W Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069-1921, Phone: (323)650-2937, URL: http://www.miramax.com

Available on DVD
Running time 132 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

World War II, Military: Army, True Stories, Rescue Missions, Action-Drama, Concentration/Internment Camps, POW/MIA, Pacific Islands

Screenplay

Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro

Cast

Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Connie Nielsen, Joseph Fiennes, Marton Csokas, Robert Mammone, Natalie Mendoza, Motoki Kobayashi, Cesar Montano, Maximillian Martini, James Carpinello, Craig McLachlan, Dale Dye, Paolo Montalban, Gotaro Tsunashima

Cinematography

Peter Menzies

Director

John Dahl

Music

Trevor Rabin

Other

Paul Brincat, Pietro Scalia, Scott Chestnut, Michael Rumpf, Lizzy Gardiner, Bruno Rubeo

Producer

Marty Katz, Lawrence Bender, Marty Katz, Miramax Films