Synopsis (from Yahoo! Movies)
Following the 1942 Bataan Death March, thousands of U.S. and Filipino soldiers were imprisoned by the Japanese in a POW camp in Cabanatuan in the Philippines. Brutalised, starved, and tortured, the prisoners languished in the camp for nearly three years. But in January 1945, an American battalion, with the help of Filipino guerrillas, planned a daring mission -- some called it suicide -- to rescue the five hundred U.S. soldiers still alive there.
The film stars Benjamin Bratt as Lt. Colonel Mucci, an offbeat military man who puts his faith in young Captain Prince (James Franco) to lead the dangerous mission. Among the men imprisoned in the camp are Joseph Fiennes as the ailing Major Gibson and Marton Csokas as Captain Redding, who is always trying to escape. Connie Nielsen adds romantic tension as a war widow smuggling much-needed medicine into the camp.
As a semi-documentary depiction of true events and the tactics used to carry out the rescue mission, this movie succeeds.
(Read the historical account at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_at_Cabanatuan)
As an entertaining story for war movie fans weaned on "Saving Private Ryan" and "Enemy At The Gates", this movie fails.
and tt's the only exciting part...