Battle for Saipan

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Alex G Not even a bad movie, absolutely dreadful. Whatever the Japanese were in the war, bad soldiers they certainly were not. Here, they can't shoot straight, have a Russian tank that they only fire once, and fail to overcome a handful of wounded US troops and nurses, despite a huge numerical advantage. For some reason every time our heroes ran out of bullets and resorted to fists, knives and baseball bats, the Japanese seemed to have equally run out of ammo. This gave them no chance even though seriously outnumbering the troops. The final battle has all the Japanese running through a double door and being mown down like corn. Not one of the Japanese thought to lob in a grenade which would have taken out the entire crew of soldiers, surgeons, cripples and nurses, bunched together right in front of the door as they were. Absolutely ridiculous film. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/11/25 Full Review Patrick H I HAVE NEVER WRITTEN A MOVIE REVIEW, AND THIS WAS THE WORST MOVIE IVE EVER SEEN. A 3rd grade videography class couldn't come up with something as God awful as this. This would be a cool war movie to someone made out of snowflakes who the most gory thing they've ever seen was a second of happy tree friends before they got sick to their stomach and had to hug their teddy bear. The director and writer should be sent to Jeffrey E's Island because they deserve a lifetime of punishment for what I had to sit through. It was devised by the brain of someone who advocated for water pistols instead of real pistols as imojis. I've seen better foreign films. Shame shame shame Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 12/31/23 Full Review Garry B I wish this movie wasn't a B movie. I really love how some movies really show you what soldiers felt. I think it was ok. Over dramatic at times & just not what our soldiers had to deal with. It's worth a watch but hoped it would had been better. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 11/16/23 Full Review BG D Too many cliches (the alcoholic commander who used to be a hotshot), too many inaccuracies (the US military was strictly segregated at the time), too many dumb moves (the sniper leaves the door to the room wide open, making it absurdly easy to walk in undetected and shoot him). The pace was dumb. The dialog was silly much of the time. Couldn't take more than a few minutes at a time. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/15/23 Full Review Chuck M When I see a movie become appallingly bad, like this one, I come here to chuckle about the views and see if mine correlate. Anyone who says this is remotely good is either lying, on the take or taking something like mushrooms. So many stilted scenes commandeered from better movies. This is "B" for so bad it will give B movies an even worse reputation. This movie is an F for failing on scripting, acting, directing and most everything else that comes to mind. However, I will give the arm-cutting scene a C for realism, except when the doctor "talks him through the sawing" in such an utterly unconvincing distracting manner it's laughable. I felt bad about actually laughing while cringing to see how far they would take the blood-oozing train-wretch of a scene. Yep, check it off the list; they show the arm taken away, dripping with a touch of realism no one really needs to see. Then the poor fellow has to finish being in the movie, maybe not til the end as I've not reached the finale. He gets the gig where big clothes and holes in bed obviously hide his real arm. I think the makers wanted to assure the audience that he didn't really lose an arm in the making of this cinematic disaster; just his Plano, Texas, pride. It's the type of movie that only delights audiences by being amusingly ridiculous. I especially enjoyed the surreptitious unit of inept Japanese solders somehow crouching in one of the odd rooms armed with a mounted machine gun that could've easily wiped out everyone within 50 yards let alone five feet. For some reason, the attractive nurses with full makeup become standup splatter targets instead of getting behind the useless "barrier beds" quickly flipped up as defenses. A couple nurses survive the encounter or else we'd just be watching gruffly men now down the opposing forces that can't even overcome this small group of Allies with a tank and hundreds of soldiers equipped to battle a battalion. The movie isn't filmed on location nor remotely based on what really happened. The Japanese weren't fighting nurses and doctors who never fired a shot except from whiskey bottles. They were throwing their overmatched lives away, as sworn to their emperor, to "honorably" die in protecting their homeland. In this dreadful drama, the cast of Japanese warriors is dispensed with in a relatively short—and fully humiliating—lopsided showdown where the odds are very much in their favor. Nothing goes favorably for the producers of Battle for Saipan except that some people paid to watch it. Although it's available free with a subscription to any outlet willing to stream it, I felt like I paid somewhat dearly with my time. Like the Japanese defending Saipan, I charged head-on into the bowels of this excuse for a B movie. I think I got hooked watching it after the physically realistic-looking removal of the soldier's arm, wishing I could watch the rest with as much morphine in me as he got. I'm confident I would make it through the rest with much less difficulty. I do hope he makes it to the end—and gets to shoot someone with his remaining hand. Everyone involved in making Battle for Saipan should jump for cover! Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/11/23 Full Review Laurie S It's a road of clap. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 05/29/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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