Angelina Jolie's WW2 biopic, starring Jack O'Connell as the Olympian and Japanese PoW Louie Zamperini, barely scratches the surface of an extraordinary life
"The film settles into a Forrest Gumpian groove that doesn't glorify the human spirit so much as sap it."
Jack O'Connell plays Olympic athlete and American war hero Louis Zamperini in Angelina Jolie's well-mounted but underwhelming WWII drama.
"A bit embalmed in its own nobility, it's an extraordinary story told in dutiful, unexceptional terms, the passionate commitment of all involved rarely achieving gut-level impact."
Jolie doesn't vary the pace or tone much during the raft and camp sequences and while she mostly avoids POW movie cliches she doesn't find much to put in their place to explain Zamperini's fortitude.
she better do Salt 2 and Mrs Smith 2 to gain the money back for this!
