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The Great Raid (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]
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5But There's No Extras on the Blu-ray
4very good military movie
5The Great Raid
5Great film and very underrated
5The Great Raid
4Lest we forget
20%1.5 stars out of 4
41%Director's Cut Makes a Much Better Movie
4The Great Raid
5EXCELLENT MOVIE
50%The Great Raid
50%Wow! What a wonderful and touching film
30%good movie, bad widescreen conversion
41%Inspiring and stays mostly true to the book
31%Prisoners of Miramax
50%excellent service and product
41%Good Film
51%Great Raid, Great Movie!!!
41%Missing scenes from the Blu-Ray edition
41%Very good but read Ghost Soldiers
50%Movie Review
51%Thought provoking movie with a great history lesson
51%Awe-Inspiring. Patriotic. Historical. Powerful.
51%A Modest But Worthwhile Epic
41%Good movie, excellent picture and sound.
50%A great war film
20%Would have made a good docu-drama
51%The Great Raid -- Amazing War Tale
51%The Great Raid / Benjamin Bratt
51%Gift for Grandson
4The Great Raid
51%An heroic story with an authenticity rare in films these days. Wonderful!
40%Great Video / Story Drags in spots
51%A true story that is told very well and one I am glad that I now know
51%Excellent Film, A Story that Needed to be Told
10%How to make a good story boring
41%Great Raid....Great Movie...
41%A lesser known film about a lesser known military offensive
30%Why, oh why, can't a "true story" be true?
51%TO ANTHONY HAND (TONY)
41%Gritty and Great
51%This movie should win Oscar Prize
31%The Great Raid
51%Saving POWs: a Sacred Mission!
5Good to the last drop
51%Wow
4Response to The great skirmish, by Anthony Hand "Tony" ( August 23, 2006
41%Excellent depiction of a truly heroic mission
20%The great skirmish
10%Could have been The Great Raid
41%Truly an epic 100% real dramatization of U.S. Army Airborne rescue
41%Truely a great film
50%ARE SOME OF THESE REVIEWERS FOR REAL?
20%Alternative title: "War Film #483"
50%Very moving, honest movie...
50%DIRTY SHAME
51%Very Good, A must see-must own!
51%One of the best war movies of recent years
51%Unknown Warriors
50%Great
51%Should be required viewing for modern Americans
10%Does not tell the true story
41%The Great Raid
41%inspiring tale
5Most Underrated of 2005
51%Wonderful WWII movie
41%Pro-America! Pro-Faith! Good ol' fashioned WWII movie!
51%The Great Raid
31%Great movie - crappy sound
51%Good but not great
50%From the daughter of a POW of the Bataan Death March
20%Not So Great Raid
51%Follows a great tradition of war movies
20%Boring....
40%Great Movie! Good Book!
41%Decent war flick
51%Left Behind, But Never Forgotten
31%Flat Telling of an Interesting Story: The Biggest Rescue in US Military History.
51%Good depiction, without the gore
41%good movie, but I don't like the director's cut
30%Uneven then again informative and entertaining
51%A great piece of WWII History is finally told!
51%Great Historical Movie
51%The Greatest Successful Raid in US. Military History....
51%War Isn't Ment To Be Funny
51%History everyone should know
41%A brief, happy conclusion to a long, miserable story
51%Excellent
41%Unsung Heroes
30%Not the greatest, but not bad either...
20%WATCH "SAVING PRIVATE RYAN "INSTED THIS JUNK!
10%Exagerated
51%A great reminder from America's Greatest Generation
51%Highly recommended movie
51%"We finally have a mission worthy of Rangers."
51%Lest we forget
11%DVD Full-Screen Rip-Off of a Great Film
51%Great movie that was underated
41%Quality war treatment of one aspect of the Pacific theatre
41%Reality
30%HOLLOW
51%One of the great untold stories of World War II
51%Fhilippinos Left Out
51%Outstanding!!
20%Half Baked WWII movie.....
51%The Great Raid is a great movie!
51%Back to the real war movies.
51%THE BEST WW2 FILM SINCE "SAVING PRIVATE RYAN!"
51%great thrill ride
30%Oh, The Casualties of Love and War.
41%An extremely well made film
30%Amazing Cinematography & Editing Is Lost Amidst The Poor Direction & Writing
30% A miltary rescue ,against the odds
41%A moving story that deserves to be told to a new generation
51%We Should See More of this Kind of Movie
51%Won't play well in Japan
51%History That Has Finally Been Told
31%The Great Raid
30%Solid, if stilted storytelling
41%Exciting war drama inspired by true events
51%History hits the screen
51%The Japanese were cruel monsters during WWII
40%"Raid" nearly gets away perfectly
31%Slow moving. Rescue mission films are hard to dismiss.
51%Not Your Typical "Modern" War Movie
51%Very well done, educated snapshot of a country at war.
51%CRITICS OFF THE EARTH- NOW!
41%Don't Listen to the "Critics"
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