The Great Raid

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Steven Rea

Lacks the visceral sweep of "Saving Private Ryan." But Spielberg's story, for all its gut-wrenching intensity, was a fiction. Dahl's movie, slower in pace and conscious of its own artifice, addresses the same issues of courage and sacrifice - and tells a true story. That's worth something. In fact, it's worth a lot. Read full review

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Chicago Tribune
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The action is brilliant, the combat sharp and rattling, and the film follows the historical record more closely than most Hollywood films. Read full review

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Chicago Sun-Times
| Roger Ebert

The Great Raid is perhaps more timely now than it would have been a few years ago, when "smart bombs" and a couple of weeks of warfare were supposed to solve the Iraq situation. Now that we are involved in a lengthy and bloody ground war there, it is good to have a film that is not about entertainment for action fans, but about how wars are won with great difficulty, risk, and cost. Read full review

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Boston Globe
| Wesley Morris

The Great Raid amounts to a noble failure. This is sad news for those of us who remain hopelessly partial to Dahl's mean streak. The failure we can live with. It's the noble part that will never do. Read full review

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