
As of June 2020, on Rotten Tomatoes, the film had an approval rating of 38%, based on 119 reviews with an average score of 5.32/10. Reception Īs of August 2014, the film had a score of 48 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 29 reviews.
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James Franco wrote about the making of the movie in his novel Actors Anonymous. It was finally released in August 2005, by Miramax Films, which coincided with the formal departure of co-founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein from the company.

The movie was shot in 2002 but it was pulled from its original 2003 release schedule on several occasions. In addition, numerous local Asian students were employed to play Japanese soldiers. The movie was filmed in south-east Queensland, Australia utilising a huge, authentic recreation of a prisoner of war camp.

The Americans used a Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter to divert Japanese attention while the Rangers were crawling toward the camp the aircraft used in the movie was a Lockheed Hudson, because none of the four surviving P-61s were airworthy when the film was made. ( October 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.

Walter Krueger to liberate all of the POWs at Cabanatuan prison camp before they are killed by the Japanese. Īt Lingayen Gulf, the 6th Ranger Battalion under Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Mucci is ordered by Lt. The film opens with the massacre of prisoners of war on Palawan by the Kempeitai, the Imperial Japanese military's secret police (though it was committed by the Japanese Fourteenth Area Army). Many prisoners were also stricken with malaria.
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The Japanese held around 500 American prisoners who had survived the Bataan Death March in a notorious POW camp at Cabanatuan and subjected them to brutal treatment and summary execution, as the Japanese code of bushido viewed surrender as a disgrace. In 1945, American forces were closing in on the Japanese-occupied Philippines.
