Saturday, September 16 4:45 PM VARSITY 8
Another great performance like in The Machinist here. This time however, it's a based-on-actual-experience of a pilot captured during the Viet Nam war.
It's obviously an interesting tale of survival, and I'm still not sure about one facet of the movie. You never find out what happened with anyone who isn't the main character. When you meet them there's a bit of backstory on them but unless the main character is with them you have no idea what they're up to.
Not really surprising since after 2 years in the POW camp they're all more than a little loopy, their actions are nigh-on impossible to predict, you have to assume that they've died or something. So while it does kind of add to the realism that you're never off the main character, I would've liked a screen of text at the end saying "I never saw anyone else from the POW camp again". Something to acknowledge that there was more than one character to the movie, since he was key but far from the only person on the screen.