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The Great Raid (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray] | ![The Great Raid (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QDSKPS4KL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: John Dahl
Actors: Benjamin Bratt, Joseph Fiennes, James Franco, Robert Mammone, Max Martini
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  139 reviews
Sales Rank: 26168
Format: Color
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Running Time: 132 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 786936716900
UPC: 786936716900
EAN: 0786936716900
ASIN: B000H7J9P8
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: September 19, 2006
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Nearly three years after it was filmed, The Great Raid finally appeared as a welcome reminder that good old-fashioned World War II movies never go out of style. While lacking the scale, prestige, and pulse-pounding momentum of Saving Private Ryan, this fact-based war drama benefits from a back-to-basics approach to realism and a rousing rescue climax that more than compensates for the slower passages that precede it. Adapted from the books The Great Raid on Cabanatuan and Ghost Soldiers, it chronicles the five-day mission (in late January 1945) to rescue 511 American prisoners of war held by the Japanese at Cabanatuan POW camp in the Philippines. Under the direction of neo-noir specialist John Dahl (The Last Seduction), the film's three-part structure follows the raid mission led by Lt. Col. Mucci (Benjamin Bratt); the plight of the POWs at Cabanatuan, including malaria-stricken Maj. Gibson (Joseph Fiennes); and civilian resistance in Manila as carried out by real-life hero and Gibson's (fictional) would-be lover Margaret Utinsky (Connie Nielsen), whose effort to aid the POWs is vigilantly monitored by the enemy Japanese. In keeping with war-movie traditions, Dahl handles character and action with no-nonsense intelligence, favoring a slow build over pumped-up adrenalin. By the time the miraculous rescue is executed with critical assistance by Filpino guerillas, The Great Raid has earned its stripes, honoring the brave men who carried out the most successful rescue mission in U.S. military history. --Jeff Shannon
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Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 09/19/2006 Rating: Pg13
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 Very good movie loved it. July 2, 2010
Michael Bohonis Sr. (Pa, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The movie worked well with my DVD player and presented no problems. This is a very good historical account of a rescue that occurred over 60 years ago. The research of this rescue was well done in every respect.
Gritty, true, WWII action movie April 12, 2010
Scott R. Lucado (Fort Worth, TX USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
World War II movies are often popular because of their portrayal of gargantuan, world-changing battles--but this movie is great because it focuses on one of the smaller, less-noticed actions late in the war...that just happens to be true.
In the Philippines, a battalion is assigned the task of raiding deep into Japanese-held territory to rescue American POW's; it's clear that before the Japanese abandon the camp, they will murder the prisoners.
Tension mounts as the soliders have to coordinate with the Philippine Scouts (guerillas who fought the Japanese through the duration of the occupation, at great risk to themselves and their people) and overcome obstacles to rescue the POW's.
Well-told and worthwhile for the history lesson, if no other reason. The movie opens with archive footage of Americans on the Bataan Death March, some pretty gritty stuff. Rated R for "strong war violence and brief language".
 The Raid May Have Been Great, But The Movie Isn't February 21, 2010
petesea (Orlando, FL)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
The raid to save POW survivors of the Bataan Death March took place over 5 days in January 1945 after US troops landed in the Philippines. This movie seems 5 days long as well - the plot inches along and there are so many characters that we hardly get to know any of them.
Why is the US POW senior officer so obsessed with the wife of his former commanding officer? I am not sure as this is not explained well. Why is the Colonel whose men have to raid the POW camp misunderstood and what are the "methods to his madness?" Again, not sure. Let's fool the Japanese by sending a single plane to buzz the camp while our troops are sneaking through open ground around the camp in daylight - you've got to be kidding!
The only interesting aspects to this story were the actions of the Filipino resistance (who knew there was one?) and the fact that only 2 raiders lost their lives on this attack - I thought was a Hollywood thing, but it is a fact.
Do not bother with this overacted, slow, boring movie.
Traditional and Fine WW2 Film November 19, 2009
drkhimxz (Freehold, NJ, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Nothing to add to the complete summaries in some reviews and the general approval with which they approach the film. It follows the traditional pattern of American War films but the action sequences and underplayed roles gave it a feeling of authenticity not always found in the genre. While the action is heated for only a short while, it sparks the picture. The acting is nicely underplayed allowing no room for a shift of attention from the roles played to the actors playing them. Admirably, despite having 60 years distance from the events, the creative staff managed to keep its focus on the perspective one might have had watching this film during that war when we knew that men and women were still to be sacrificed to the megalomania of a leadership group striving to make their nation the center of THE ONLY great Pacific power. So far as I could tell, while there was a need for fictionalization of precise facts and figures, the more general picture was as it might well have been.
All in all, this is a picture which grips one and also reminds us that neither the European nor the Pacific allies of the Axis fought by Marquis of Queens-berry rules. The result was, as is almost always the case: their unrestrained brutality brought a much greater unrestrained brutality on the part of the United States and its allies. Real wars generate real hatred for the enemy.
I should mention that there is little in the film to disturb younger viewers. While not a family picture, it can be seen by the family which might take on some of the questions which it raises in our minds.
Spectacular!!! September 12, 2009
Miguelvicente C. Gatmaytan (Seattle, WA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I always had a thing for watching war movies ... the Battle of the Bulge ... Midway ...I would say that this falls within that category. Though, it is not a great battle in itself the story of the rescue of POW makes it as important as all the battles that won WWII.
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