The script is not a bit afraid of offending Hollywood's largest overseas film market by portraying Japan's WWII soldiers as homicidal brutes. This is refreshing at first, but after a dozen or so atrocities you begin to feel you've wandered into an old propaganda film.
Yes, we all know how nice the Japanese were in WWII. I'm guessing Medved will do a review today. I'll wait to see what he says.
I suppose that same reviewer had a problem with how the Nazis were portrayed in The Pianist.
where was this review from