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Unbroken

Unbroken

2014
Drama, War
2h 17m
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II. (imdb)

Directed by:

Angelina Jolie

Screenwriter:

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, William Nicholson

Starring:

Garrett Hedlund, Vincenzo Amato, Luke Treadaway, Domhnall Gleeson, Finn Wittrock, John Magaro, Jack O'Connell, Jai Courtney, Spencer Rocco Lofranco, John D'Leo, Miyavi, Maddalena Ischiale

Franchise:

Unbroken

Genres:

Drama, War, Biography, Sport

Country:

USA

Languages:

English, Japanese, Italian, Ukrainian
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Unbroken

2014
Drama, War
2h 17m
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sofielykkesofielykke
Rated 07 Jan 2015
55
26th
Forget Zamperini's sob story, what I really wanna know is: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DUCK IN THE BAR WHO ORDERED A CREME DE MENTHE???!!! major cliffhanger
Rated 07 Jan 2015
billyshearsBillyShears
Rated 25 Dec 2014
50
21st
Two and a half agonizing hours of watching someone be pelted with an Oscar.
Rated 25 Dec 2014
obdurateObdurate
Rated 26 Dec 2014
65
30th
It just really needed to be tightened up. O'Connell is going to make a name for himself, so I don't fault him with anything here. It just kinda goes on and on. At some point you stop being like, "oh those bastards, this is disgusting" and you start going, "whatever." There were moments of real emotion, but then the momentum goes and it slows down too much. A slow movie is fine but there's gotta be something there to grip you and sometimes Unbroken forgot that. Still decent, great story.
Rated 26 Dec 2014
thedenizenTheDenizen
Rated 09 May 2021
40
17th
I watched this not knowing it was a biopic and spent two thirds of the runtime wondering when the fuck any sort of plot was going to resolve itself out of this mess. A bunch of terrible stuff happens to a guy and he survives, the end. It's not totally awful, but the direction makes everything feel really flat and artificial, and most of the dialog was astonishingly cliche...I was appalled to discover the Coen brothers wrote this nonsense. Also, Jack O'Connell is kinda shite in the lead role.
Rated 09 May 2021
cowmanCowman
Rated 01 Jan 2016
60
28th
Try to hit the stop button just before the credits start rolling: they are set to an inappropriate Coldplay song.
Rated 01 Jan 2016
cagedwisdomcagedwisdom
Rated 08 Feb 2015
50
38th
It's enjoyable, but it's literally the exact same film as the Korean WWII epic My Way, which is far superior in every way and was all I could think about throughout this. O'Connell is going places.
Rated 08 Feb 2015
bojanglesBojangles
Rated 22 Jan 2015
20
5th
Bad. Hits all the worn out and overly familiar low/high points of any entry into the Misery Porn genre. After all Zamperini has been through in this life: the horror of war, post-traumatic stress disorder, being physically and psychologically tortured by Jessica Biel's androgynous Asian love child...what ended up killing him was attempting to watch a rough cut of this movie. Good job Angie.
Rated 22 Jan 2015
xacviantxacviant
Rated 04 Jan 2015
71
27th
The story of how Louis Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) went from delinquent to Olympic runner to POW, and how he bore his considerable hardships along the way. Angelina Jolie stages some impressive sequences; the opening battle, the grueling life-raft voyage, the bombing of Tokyo as seen from a POW camp. But the script (the product of four talented but disparate writers) never really tells the story of the man, merely the story of what happened to him. Acting and production values expectedly solid.
Rated 04 Jan 2015
peyrinpeyrin
Rated 29 Jun 2019
55
24th
It's kinda impressive that this managed to simultaneously be a laughably generic survival movie (MAN EATING SHARKS!!!) and a laughably generic war movie (ALL JAPANESE ARE EVIL!!!)
Rated 29 Jun 2019
astrakhanastrakhan
Rated 08 Oct 2017
76
43rd
While competently shot, this is an unrelentingly grim and sombre film which takes itself incredibly seriously, and is much the worse for it. A great detail of effort clearly went into period costumes, period equipment, period settings. And the underlying tale is the kind other directors might have turned into Oscar bait. But the way this story is told is just so downbeat, so monotonous, without any ray of light or humour or humanity - it's a trial. Watch 10 minutes and skip to the credits.
Rated 08 Oct 2017
ecitizeneCitizen
Rated 04 Jan 2016
70
70th
Jack O'Connell was a satisfying lead with convincing performance throughout. Angelina Jolie did good as director. The true story is worth being told, despite the many hardships & sadistic Japanese. I liked the parts interleaved with scenes from home, the crash landings & the shark battle. The ending became a long slog with too few diversions from the distress & suffering in the POW camp.
Rated 04 Jan 2016
wwallce4prezWWallce4prez
Rated 02 Jan 2016
55
18th
A great story, absolutely, but it isn't told here. Instead, there is simply event after event without characterization and without a proper editing crew.
Rated 02 Jan 2016
yoohooyoohoo
Rated 18 Dec 2015
60
19th
This wasn't a bad film at all - it was emotionally gripping and tense. But a lot of things could have been more developed. The idea of mixing his past experiences into the present was a great touch, but it only happened twice. I would have loved to see more through his childhood and how it affected his current situation. As others have said, once he gets to the POW camp it drags on, facing the same challenges over and over. But I guess it really was like that, being a true story. But as a movie?
Rated 18 Dec 2015
ttoshittoshi
Rated 26 Nov 2015
58
68th
Hard not to appreciate a true story like this with a positive message at the end.
Rated 26 Nov 2015
damildamil
Rated 27 Jun 2015
70
67th
It's a pretty punishing and depressing story, but I found it sufficiently interesting. It's told in a matter-of-fact manner, but that didn't really bother me. Angelina Jolie's direction is similarly straightforward, but not bad. Jack O'Connell gives another great performance, though I couldn't really ever believe him as an Italian-American. It's not an extraordinary film, but I think it's probably worth a watch.
Rated 27 Jun 2015
derekstarDerekstar
Rated 25 Apr 2015
50
27th
Why are the Coen brothers still doctoring scripts?
Rated 25 Apr 2015
dougcollinsDougCollins
Rated 22 Apr 2015
80
39th
Good movie, Great story.
Rated 22 Apr 2015
barraocBarraoc
Rated 28 Mar 2015
70
64th
A man of few words and many beatings.
Rated 28 Mar 2015
cowfrappecowfrappe
Rated 06 Mar 2015
55
22nd
Such an amazing story deserved a film not as by-the-book.
Rated 06 Mar 2015
realmacgyverRealMacgyver
Rated 06 Feb 2015
60
30th
Big budget TV movie, decent performances and impressive look to the cast
Rated 06 Feb 2015
bowfingerbowfinger
Rated 28 Jan 2015
40
33rd
That old fart almost had me sobbing at the end. Then I remembered what he said during their bombing run when he annihilated countless lives at the push of a button, "Get your cameras boys, I'm gonna light it up like Christmas." (Look at the movie poster, it says Christmas, too. Coincidence? Yeah, right.)
Rated 28 Jan 2015
dresd_r_e_s_
Rated 27 Jan 2015
2
31st
Sure, it's a good story and all, but it's clearly missing some punch. At first they make a fine dynamic too the story by going back and forth. That is what it is, but that idea simply stops as Zamperini becomes a captive. From here on out, almost every scene is a drag and feels forced and uninspired. Simply a lot of various/random prison camp scenarios making Watanabe a villain and Zamperini a hero. Even though O'Connell did a noteworthy job, I was disappointed overall. - Okay
Rated 27 Jan 2015
antidood1antidood1
Rated 25 Jan 2015
50
17th
Perfectly watchable, perfectly American and perfectly forgettable.
Rated 25 Jan 2015
mspraguemsprague
Rated 22 Jan 2015
56
23rd
Sadly, I didn't find this one that good. Some of the acting is pretty good but I had a hard time buying the prison camp scenes. It's a good attempt but doesn't quite land.
Rated 22 Jan 2015
mrkbinghammrkbingham
Rated 19 Jan 2015
77
23rd
Great acting by Jack O'Connell carries this film (he is in nearly every shot). The story draws thin at certain points and relies too much on emotional inspiration that the audience is assumed to have. A true tale of human perseverance, but such a grand biopic should have been a little more.
Rated 19 Jan 2015
pluggedinPluggedIN
Rated 18 Jan 2015
70
72nd
"The film version of Unbroken does not spend a lot of screen time on his Christian conversion--detailing it in a series of text cards before the closing credits. And that is exactly the way my Dad and our entire family wanted it. ... [His] greatest hope for the film version of Unbroken [was] not that it would be applauded by fellow Christians. (pluggedin.com)
Rated 18 Jan 2015
tjlmovfrks23TjlMovFrks23
Rated 15 Jan 2015
50
17th
Inspired by a real life heroic tales, Unbroken is not presented as such. sure the main character is a force to be reckon with amidst his perseverance and integrity. nevertheless, the manner in which the survival story is drawn upon is too tedious. In other words,the film direction is a bit tad too familiar with similar case of survival found in Spielberg's "Empire of The Sun". Its failed to capture the real story significance.
Rated 15 Jan 2015
lightning17Lightning17
Rated 14 Jan 2015
78
78th
Though it falls into simply a retelling of events, Unbroken is inspirational and moving, but lacks in the power of the emotional journey of Zamperini through its 'horrors of war' take on the story. Still, a very good film.
Rated 14 Jan 2015
mattburgessmattburgess
Rated 10 Jan 2015
24
13th
Jack O'Connell is way too cool for this shit lets be real.
Rated 10 Jan 2015
pustotapustota
Rated 09 Jan 2015
45
21st
Can't say that the story was completely uninspiring - I made gnocchi
Rated 09 Jan 2015
foxyrussianFoxyRussian
Rated 09 Jan 2015
84
54th
Every part drags just slightly, but great performances really help the film.Also poor directing by Jolie really ruined the raft scene (way to many mistakes that were very noticable, like the 2nd raft). I hated the Bird, I really hated him, so all power to the actor.
Rated 09 Jan 2015
vinegarbobVinegarBob
Rated 09 Jan 2015
50
24th
Yet another by the numbers biopic. More torture-porn-y as the film progresses, and by the end it just didn't mean anything anymore. The technical stuff was fine, but the script was sub-par and as a result so was the film as a whole.
Rated 09 Jan 2015
stewballStewball
Rated 08 Jan 2015
80
80th
Very well done and realistic, especially the air action. Well worth seeing but it has a low re-watchablity quotient.
Rated 08 Jan 2015
carsonwidCarsonWid
Rated 08 Jan 2015
66
45th
Jack O'Connell's 3rd best performance of 2014.
Rated 08 Jan 2015
wezzoWezzo
Rated 07 Jan 2015
81
53rd
A compelling, powerful film overall. Though some sequences tend to veer a little long, overall Jolie does a wonderful job of bringing the inspirational story of Louis Zamperini to life. Beautiful cinematography, and a stirring central performance from the wonderful Jack O'Connell.
Rated 07 Jan 2015
therealj_roTheRealJ-Ro
Rated 04 Jan 2015
70
42nd
There are parts of this I really liked, and parts of it that were just there. It's a shade heavy on the American Jingoism for my taste. It's a shade more religiously-undertoned than I expected; among other things, I immediately connoted Jesus' crucifixion from the plank scene. Also, wasn't there, y'know, a nuclear bombing that ended the war, not just... nothing? I dunno, that bugged me more than it should have. This is inoffensive, good in pieces, but should have been much better for its hype.
Rated 04 Jan 2015
keebsgsKeebsGS
Rated 02 Jan 2015
63
13th
You know, I really wanted to like this film because the real life story is amazing. But that's just it, it's a great story about survival. The dialogue was crap and "the feel good moments" are almost overbearing in their cheesiness. Read the novel instead because the story of Louie Zamperini is one that needs to be told but skip out on this Oscar-Bait movie.
Rated 02 Jan 2015
dylanwilson6dylanwilson6
Rated 01 Jan 2015
55
20th
You just feel that this story should have felt and mattered more when leaving the theater. Jack O'Connell gives a great performance, but it just lacked a real strong pace (don't know if I should blame Jolie on that). Once he enters the POW camp, the movie just drags. A part of that problem is the main antagonist (the Bird), who just feels way too cartoonish. Again not sure if that is the actors fault or direction, but it was bad. Also, HOW THE HELL DID THEY GET THE SECOND RAFT BACK!
Rated 01 Jan 2015
matthew_parkinsonMatthew Parkinson
Rated 28 Dec 2014
50
47th
Unbroken is a movie that should inspire and instead feels like a waste of time. Based on an incredible true story of perseverance, it doesn't give us much insight into its lead character and plays out like a light torture porn film. What should be powerful and inspirational is boring. It starts off strong and engaging, but eventually wears us out and made me want to stop watching it. I'm not as strong as Louie Zamperini. Unbroken proved that much.
Rated 28 Dec 2014
dougiedDougieD
Rated 27 Dec 2014
70
35th
A competent and slightly overwrought biopic that succeeds thanks to its motivating true story, strong performances and heart stirring photography. Jolie is fine as a director. Any problems are with an unfocused script that tries to give equal emphasis to all parts of Louis' story.
Rated 27 Dec 2014
thorn969thorn969
Rated 21 Dec 2014
48
44th
A great story... but something didn't quite connect in this movie... it felt... acted, not real.
Rated 21 Dec 2014
glumpy99glumpy_99
Rated 12 Mar 2024
53
13th
This should really be far more moving and involving than it is, and the major problem is a screenplay that can never bring its leading character (or his plight) into focus – search in vain for any trace of influence from the Coens, this is a rote and ultimately tedious accounting of Zamperini’s ordeal, with neither the athletic scenes or the POW scenes managing to raise much tension; hindered further by O’Connell’s blank cipher rendering of the central character.
Rated 12 Mar 2024
edwardedward
Rated 30 Jun 2023
70
52nd
The opening scene is exceptional but it lost its appeal rather quickly after the first 10 minutes. Not a terrible film either. The last 40 minutes are unnecessary and overly uncomfortable. Not real sure what to think.
Rated 30 Jun 2023
eric_janeric-jan
Rated 10 Dec 2022
70
54th
Whew.. that was a tough one to watch. Very memorable movie with a great buildup. A perfect test of endurance: unbroken.
Rated 10 Dec 2022
walkearthwalkearth
Rated 18 Sep 2021
60
60th
Jesus is king. Both the story and the film's structure are very predictable and formulaic: we've seen the same film a million times with the same tropes and excessive melodrama, and thus it gets boring very quickly. The Coen brother's writing (or whatever their involvement with the plot was) is not felt and I was surprised to read their names after seeing the film. But where the film excels at is it's glorifying the one King and Saviour of the world, our Lord Jesus Christ. Praise the Lord.
Rated 18 Sep 2021
thegreyfoxthegreyfox
Rated 15 Aug 2021
65
40th
Undoubtedly a worthy story, but something was "off" with this film. Despite 47 days in a raft, and 2 years of constrant beatings with fists and Shinai, every time we see LZ, he has made a miraculous recovery! So much so that when he is taken out of the camp for a day, he looks great, and eats a hearty meal (umm! ). When he meets his family again, its like nothing has happened! It's a shame, it removed all sense of the unbelievable suffering these men really endured to evoke his "unbreakability"
Rated 15 Aug 2021
sproostsproost
Rated 11 Apr 2021
30
7th
Angelina Jolie has made a (almost 3h long) movie arguing that if you're good at sports, a japanese prisoner camp isn't that big of a deal at all.
Rated 11 Apr 2021
inzzzomniainzzzomnia
Rated 16 Mar 2019
2
18th
Coldplay is in the soundtrack to this movie. Kind of says it all...
Rated 16 Mar 2019
ag0stomesmerAg0stoMesmer
Rated 10 Sep 2018
1
20th
Couldn't get into this, might give it another go sometime.
Rated 10 Sep 2018
burrrburrr
Rated 29 May 2018
63
21st
61.50+.87+.50 = 62.87.
Rated 29 May 2018
lethiaslethias
Rated 14 Mar 2018
82
55th
A bit over-glorified but still inspirational.
Rated 14 Mar 2018
arossaross
Rated 12 Sep 2017
72
43rd
very disney approach to the subject. still pretty good
Rated 12 Sep 2017
theescapistTheEscapist
Rated 18 Dec 2016
57
15th
Not terrible, but quite boring. Very conventional and formulaic. Not many redeeming scenes.
Rated 18 Dec 2016
evilmangoesEvilMangoes
Rated 12 Nov 2016
77
46th
B
Rated 12 Nov 2016
isandpeopleiSandpeople
Rated 15 Apr 2016
45
20th
Striking, yet uninteresting.
Rated 15 Apr 2016
ryan_luedersRyan Lueders
Rated 27 Jan 2016
77
47th
There was nothing broken about this movie, other than the fact that this was a terrible movie to witness. That doesn't mean it's a bad movie, it's just hard to see one person suffer, and then think he's in the clear... just to suffer some more. If it wasn't for the nice ending to this movie, I would have hated it. You have to have some good with the bad in these kind of stories or you'll fatigue the audience. There's only so much suffering one can take in a single sitting...
Rated 27 Jan 2016
zaezae
Rated 12 Dec 2015
58
22nd
Not bad, just... conventional as fuck.
Rated 12 Dec 2015
iyisinekiyisinek
Rated 08 May 2015
75
67th
Savas, WW2, atlet, biyografi, uçak, uçak kazasi, denize düsen uçak, denizde mahsur kalmak, aclik, esir, japonya, kötü muamele, siddet, esir kampi,
Rated 08 May 2015
muutanetmuutanet
Rated 01 Feb 2015
38
29th
Angelina has sucked with war movies. The first half of the movie was not catchy at all and the latter one tried to make Zamperini a Jesus figure (with carrying a beam of lumber like part of the cross). America needs heroes, the rest of the world don't on a silver screen.
Rated 01 Feb 2015
thedicemanTheDiceman
Rated 28 Jan 2015
70
82nd
Very good.
Rated 28 Jan 2015
kavuKavu
Rated 23 Jan 2015
38
16th
Not to take anything away from Zamperini, but this is a pretty ridiculous movie. Boring and ugly. A rare misstep from the Coens and Deakins.
Rated 23 Jan 2015
jordanligejordanlige
Rated 14 Jan 2015
100
51st
really good movie
Rated 14 Jan 2015

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