
Set in the Philippines in 1945 towards the end of WWII, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Robert Prince, the 6th Ranger Battalion undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, they intend to liberate over 500 American Soldiers from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever.... (Full plot summary below)
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Set in the Philippines in 1945 towards the end of WWII, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Robert Prince, the 6th Ranger Battalion undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, they intend to liberate over 500 American Soldiers from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever.
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| tonymedley.comTony MedleyExcept for a silly fictional love story that demeans Margaret Utinsky's heroism, this is the best war movie ever, vividly contrasting Japanese bestiality with American valor. |
| FilmJerk.comBrian OrndorfGreat Raid shines a light on an important, little-told tale of WWII combat, but the history deserves less drowsy reverence and more wartime enthusiasm. |
| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsDiana SaengerA thrilling and inspiring true-life war drama. |
| Film BlatherEugene NovikovAs the movie shuffles along the plotlines, the momentum drains to zero. |
| DVDTalk.comScott WeinbergThe Great Raid has one amazing action sequence. You just have to watch the whole story in order to earn and appreciate it. |
| Reel Times: Reflections on CinemaMark PfeifferJohn Dahl's solemn staging of the rescue mission will likely earn him points from military aficionados, but The Great Raid is terminally dull. |
| San Antonio Express-NewsLarry RatliffStraightforward and traditional, director John Dahl's depiction of this little-chronicled World War II raid has the feel of a war movie made 30 or 40 years ago. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldTruth be told, the film is routine: the kind of one-note war movie that Hollywood used to crank out by the dozens every year in the 1950s. |
| Entertainment InsidersJonathan W. HickmanThe Great Raid works well as a film when it concentrates on the planning and completion of the mission. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin CliffordThe Great Raid is a heartfelt film that accurately tells its story but lacks the emotional involvement to put it into the pantheon of great war films. |