Unbroken

Unbroken 

Rating 5 out of 10

There are a thousand hero stories from survivors and non-survivors of wars past.  MANY movies have been made on these folks.  Call this one a thousand and one.  I'm not taking anything away from Louis Zamperini.  He was the real life WWII survivor for whom on Veterans Day I'll take my hat off and salute in memory of all those brave souls that did battle so I can sit at my laptop and bang out a review on this movie.  Unbroken is not a bad movie.  It's just very depressing and I'm not sure it was a story that needed to be told.

Zamperini was a troubled child in California in trouble most of the time.  When his older brother shows faith in his running abilities he trains extra hard and becomes the fastest high schooler to ever run the mile and makes the Olympics.  He does amazingly well at the Olympics and becomes famous.  Fast forward a few years and he is working on a bomber plane in the war.  When his plane goes down he and a couple others are stranded in a raft for 47 days.  Unfortunately when he is rescued it's by the evil Japanese.  He is put into a POW camp and is beaten and horribly treated for years.

The treatment is brutal and often hard to watch.  The main thing Zamperini does is survive.  I'm glad he did.  Not sure I'm glad I paid money to see it on the big screen.