Battle for Saipan

At least I didn't hear a kookaburra...

Dreadful plot. Historically inaccurate. Geographically inaccurate. Biologically inaccurate. Guns with endless ammunition. Soldiers that bunch up together and still don't die. Soldiers that don't take cover and still don't die. Japanese soldiers that can't throw grenades around corners. Japanese soldiers that roam and attack in single file. Subtitles required for non US English speakers. 'Merica!

Three stars for knife action and manly grunting.

This movie is best skipped. It strains to evoke much at all in the viewer. It solipsistic in that you have no idea where the rest of the US military is located.

Perhaps I should've known better when I saw Casper's name in the cast list... Obviously low budget but there have been lots of good movies made on a shoestring Inaccuracies and anachronisms abound... From plastic buckles on the military gear, to wrong uniforms... having to burn "sensitive documents" which are obviously photocopies... The script is poorly written, the story is weak (while, given the events described, it did not have to be.) The sets are poorly designed, as are the special effects (i.e. Gore, explosions, etc.) Please, spare yourself the pain of my experience watching this, you, undoubtedly, have much better options available to you.

The acting is not good at all, the screenplay is not good at all, and it is very, very loosely based on any real WW2 events. Basically using the name Saipan, and actors who look Japanese, is about as close to 'historically accurate' as it gets.

I kept waiting for the dead people to start walking around, like some low-budget zombie movie or something.

I have somehow made it to the 45 minute mark, because I'm scrolling on fb and dropped the remote.

If you are in the middle of some home repairs and need a little break from watching paint dry, this is your movie! Otherwise, do not waste your time.

The opening scene where there are walking though the jungle of Saipan, there M1A1 Thompsons don't even have front or rear sights or butt plates. Also since when did the Japanese have russian built T-34's in WWII. M1 carbines did not have bayonet lugs on them until much later in the war then July of 1944. Zip ties on rifle stocks like what those weren't even invented untill the 1950's last time i checked WWII was in the 1940's. Like who was the weapons advisor on this movie? Or did they not have one. All of this was within the first 60 mins complete trash of a movie if I could give it less then a 1 I would. I'm sure I could go on with how horrible this movie is but I'm all set. Simply the worst WWII movie I have ever seen and there have been some bad ones.

Maybe it was a bet?

Maybe it was a dare?

Maybe it was a a favour?

Maybe somebody's eight year old and his pals got together and wrote a script and all these other people decided to take the easy money?

Maybe the studio needed a loser for tax purposes?

Maybe Casper and Jeff needed something on their resumes to distract from something else?

Maybe reading these reviews is time better spent and considerably more entertaining than watching this inconceivably, incomprehensibly poorly executed motion picture?

Maybe some viewers have amazingly low standards and were never exposed to anything better, and so write 10 star reviews and chide everyone else for recognizing and writing about what a steaming pile this dead turkey is?

Maybe I really had to struggle to find enough things to meet the character limit, and at no point could I dredge up anything positive or redeeming to say?