She works to smuggle drugs to the prisoners at Cabanatuan, and is romantically linked with Gibson. Margaret is a major player in the underground movement. Finally, a third thread follows the exploits of Margaret Utinsky (Connie Nielsen) in Manila. Meanwhile, in the camp, we are introduced to Major Gibson (Joseph Fiennes) and Captain Redding (Marton Csokas), two of the most prominent Americans in captivity. Colonel Mucci (Benjamin Bratt) and his right-hand man and chief strategist, Captain Prince (James Franco). army prepares a plan to raid the camp and free the prisoners. Concerned that the losing army will issue a "killing order" to exterminate all of the 500+ Americans interred at the Cabanatuan Prisoner of War camp, the U.S. American and Philippine forces, intent upon re-capturing the islands, are pushing the Japanese army across Luzon. The rousing success of the final 45 minutes cannot entirely counterbalance the stumbling uncertainty of the first 90 minutes. Unfortunately, although John Dahl's film may have the length one normally expects from a war film with an ambitious trajectory, it lacks focus and the pacing is uneven. The central premise is promising: a factually-based account of a 1945 combined U.S./Philippine raid into a Japanese prison camp to free American GI's. And, unlike many recent entries in the genre, it does not seek to take a revisionist look at war. The Great Raid seeks to be the kind of epic war film that was popular during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
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