IMDb plot summary: After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Directed by Angelina Jolie. Starring Jack O'Connell, Domnhall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund, and Miyavi.
This is one of those films that I struggle to know how to review or rank because it's a perfectly fine film and yet never connects to me beyond a surface level. Like so many biopics, it inherently struggles to connect all the relevant threads of one person's life into a smooth narrative (difficult because, well, our lives aren't smooth narratives). I was honestly far more interested in that part of his life casually alluded to in the epilogue -- his later return to Japan. Survival of immediate obstacles is less compelling to me than the stories of people healing from the obstacles they've survived. That being said, the story is well-paced and well-written and has some good moments. It's fine.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Unbroken > The Lion in Winter (2003)
Unbroken < The Front
Unbroken > Cape Fear (1991)
Unbroken < Peeping Tom
Unbroken < Captain Phillips
Unbroken < Malcolm X
Unbroken < The Other Side of Sunday
Unbroken > The Illusionist (2006)
Unbroken > The Killing
Unbroken > Stage Fright (2014)
Unbroken < 2001: A Space Odyssey
Final spot: #1002 out of 2724.
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