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To End All Wars (2001)

Drama | 125 minutes
3,53 380 votes

Genre: Drama / War

Duration: 125 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: David L. Cunningham

Stars: Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland and Ciarán McMenamin

IMDb score: 6,9 (11.872)

Releasedate: 2 September 2001

To End All Wars plot

The true story of four Allied POWs who endure the ill-treatment of their Japanese captors during World War II. They are forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle. Ultimately, they find true freedom by forgiving their enemies. Based on the true story of Ernest Gordon.

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Major Ian Campbell

Lt. Jim 'Yanker' Reardon

Dusty Miller

Takashi Nagase

Col. Stuart McLean

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John Lee Hooker

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Gripping, it makes you think again.

How terrible it must have been for the soldiers. Nowadays there are countless films about the war so that it doesn't come across as very shocking anymore, but here they do it well. We stay in camp for almost the entire playing time and yet we were thrown from one situation to another and it never got boring or sentimental.

Perhaps more characters could have been cast. We now only follow a handful of soldiers and the rest are really just followers or appendages. McMenamin and Robert Carlyle steal the show.

Great how the colonel just went against the Japanese, I was secretly waiting for someone to revolt and it happened. On the other hand, the friendly dialogue between Takashi and Ernest was also very interesting to watch.

The building of the railway to India might have been a bit grayer because it didn't seem like they were really hungry or tired now.
I could appreciate the black and white photos in between, it reminds you that these events actually took place and that should not just be forgotten.

The allied planes came out of nowhere and the accompanying explosions were a nice surprise (for the viewer).


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Movsin

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The atrocities in a Japanese prison camp not portrayed for the first time, but no less horrific for that.

Film preaches goodness and "forgiveness in spite of everything" and is based on true facts but still believe that this leaves reality for a while.

Agree, after years, but immediately after...? Anyway, that's how it would have been and anyway, this is far from a bad movie.

Historical situations are always good to know and this war sketch has been well filmed, with the inhumane living conditions, the atrocities and can count on good interpretations.

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