Battle for Saipan

This must be a joke for sure.

There is nothing that just slightly resembles war or ww2 or even a war-movie. Amateur reenactors would do better.

The story is a great collection of ridiculous clichés, un-natural characters, stupid conversations.

First I was not able to watch it after the first half, but I forced myself and returned to see the similarly unexplainable second half.

Please don't do it, it's even worse than the beginning.

The makers have clearly no idea of anything.

Do yourself a favor and leave this movie out of your life, does not worth the few minutes to fast forward it through!

After writing my senior thesis on Saipan it is surprising to me that they decided to make a movie victimizing the Americans. The battle was a failure to fight for survival by the Japanese. What they're trying to cover is a large push back order by general Saito. About 4,000 men were gathered and told to give their lives in a suicidal charge. This charge was ordered knowing that the Japanese had no hope. The soldiers charged with sticks and rocks and whatever they had left. The wounded were killed. The movie is completely baffling. Should focus on the Japanese POV if it wanted to serve history.

Every male actor a hunk, every female actor a model. Then we get to the story; 'based on real events'. Yeah, very loosely. Casting should have been fired way before a camera was hired.

It just has that 80's made for TV feel, yup, worse than The A-Team, that bad. The dialogue is awful, the acting far too intense in the minor moments. Sometimes less is more, guys.

Of course the Japanese just throw themselves at machine guns like they were never trained in the basics. Of course the GI's are so proficient at unarmed combat. The Japanese would never have any idea about Karate or Jiu Jitsu. How could they despite inventing it?

Really not good in any way. Have the production team bigged this up on review sites? Mmmm?

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.