More of a skimpy skirmish that lasts way too short and has too little peril to be great

War is hell, and so are some war movies.

Might have gotten some attention if John Wayne had been around to star in it

This is strictly for WWII buffs.

For a man dying of malaria, Fiennes shivers impressively but also talks too much.

[D]eliciously old-fashioned... Like in how Dahl assembled a cast of perfectly 1940s faces that pop off the screen with a suave anti-Technicolor urgency...

Raid may move, but it isn’t particularly moving.

John Dahl’s solemn staging of the rescue mission will likely earn him points from military aficionados, but The Great Raid is terminally dull.

The three unwieldy story lines might even have daunted someone like David Lean. They utterly defeat director John Dahl, a director used to working in miniature

'Nothing in our lives will ever be as important as this,' says Lt. Bratt, in a pep talk that some of his boys might have found more depressing than motivational.