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DVD : The Great Raid (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]In association with Amazon.comstarring: Benjamin Bratt, Joseph Fiennes, James Franco, Robert Mammone, Max Martini directed by: John Dahl ![: The Great Raid (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QDSKPS4KL._SL160_.jpg) List Price: $34.99 Amazon.com's Price: $19.99 You Save: $15.00 (43%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: Blu-ray Brand: Miramax EAN: 0786936716900 Format: Color Label: Miramax Home Entertainment Manufacturer: Miramax Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Miramax Home Entertainment Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 19, 2006 Running Time: 132 minutes Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 2005 Sales Rank: 17438 MPN: DISBR52409 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 09/19/2006 Rating: Pg13 Amazon.com: Nearly three years after it was filmed, The Great Raid finally appeared as a welcome reminder that good old-fashioned World War II movies never go out of style. While lacking the scale, prestige, and pulse-pounding momentum of Saving Private Ryan, this fact-based war drama benefits from a back-to-basics approach to realism and a rousing rescue climax that more than compensates for the slower passages that precede it. Adapted from the books The Great Raid on Cabanatuan and Ghost Soldiers, it chronicles the five-day mission (in late January 1945) to rescue 511 American prisoners of war held by the Japanese at Cabanatuan POW camp in the Philippines. Under the direction of neo-noir specialist John Dahl (The Last Seduction), the film's three-part structure follows the raid mission led by Lt. Col. Mucci (Benjamin Bratt); the plight of the POWs at Cabanatuan, including malaria-stricken Maj. Gibson (Joseph Fiennes); and civilian resistance in Manila as carried out by real-life hero and Gibson's (fictional) would-be lover Margaret Utinsky (Connie Nielsen), whose effort to aid the POWs is vigilantly monitored by the enemy Japanese. In keeping with war-movie traditions, Dahl handles character and action with no-nonsense intelligence, favoring a slow build over pumped-up adrenalin. By the time the miraculous rescue is executed with critical assistance by Filpino guerillas, The Great Raid has earned its stripes, honoring the brave men who carried out the most successful rescue mission in U.S. military history. --Jeff Shannon Average Rating:
 Rating: - Lest we forget"The Great Raid" is based upon the true life story of the 6th Div US Army Rangers liberation of the Cabanatuan prison camp on the Phillipine Islands. This 'death camp' held more than 500 US soldiers who were ordered to surrender by the US command. As cowards in the Japanese culture, they were less than human and treated reprehensibly. The film is augmented with newsreel accounts of World War II in black and white. The acting on the part of Benjamin Bratt as Colonel Munci who led the ... Read More Rating:  - 1.5 stars out of 4The Bottom Line: A sterile and old-fashioned (in a bad way) war film, The Great Raid is about as perfunctory and bland as movies get; no wonder it sat on the shelf for years. Rating: - Director's Cut Makes a Much Better MovieThis director's cut is a much better movie than the theatrical or original video release. The theatrical cut juggled the three storylines in unwieldy fashion and erred too far in creating action-heroine dilemmas for the Margaret Utinsky character. In this cut, both the POW sequences and the Resistance sequences were trimmed. This not only allowed the central event of the story, the Ranger raid, to have more breathing room, but also purified and enhanced the POW and Resistance storylines, ... Read More Rating: - The Great RaidAs an avid reader of non-fiction (Ghost Soldiers) this is one of my favorite books made into a movie. This is the story of the Greatest Raid almost forgotten. The movie recounts the story of the Ranger unit performing the raid, the Filipino guerrillas, Japanese captors and the POWs to be rescued. Sides recount the history of the Bataan Death March, the Battle of Corregidor and their relationship to the Cabanatuan POW camp. In March of 1942 more than 75,000 (66,000 Filipinos, ... Read More Rating:  - EXCELLENT MOVIEI saw this movie for first time on veterans day 2008. Outstanding actors,authentic battles. i strongly recommend this movie, it is a must see. Browse for similar items by category:
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