Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I'm a bit confused..... The alternative title to the movie, released as a steel-book is 38th Battalion, Kokoda The 38 the battalion, according to Wikipedia, never served in PNG, in fact, only served on the Australian mainland!This may be a mistake, by the makers of the steel-book edition, but you would think they'd have got it correct, in order to stay historically correct. I found it to be quite a good movie, however some of the night time scenes were hard to view. This is, of course, a problem with any movie, and lack of funds probably added to this problem. All in all, not too bad, but with this being such a part of Australia's history, you would hope someone else re-makes it, sometime.

While The Mud, The Sickness and the Unsettling Horrors, Of fighting a war in the Papuan Rainforest, Against the seemingly unstopable (Albeit Mis-Represented!) Japanese foe are well captured..The soldiers "Chocos" personalities however?, Are not! The viewer is just not given a lot of background information on these men...Where they came from?, Why they were fighting?..Etc!.., Leaving the viewer not really caring, As to who survives the ordeal.On top of that, The movie is affected by a slightly heavyhanded bit of Australian Nationalism, Not that's an overly bad thing?, It's just that it's feels 'shoehorned' in, For the occasion of the movie release..ANZAC Day!

I wouldn't recommend this movie... it was alright, but it was too short, an hour and a half didn't leave any real room for character development. If you want to focus on the unsung heroes of battle the world is unaware of, but is close to so many Australian's hearts you actually need to give those heroes a decent amount of screen time. I liked the inclusion of the "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels", they deserve to make a showing in a film, unfortunately it was underdone, towards the end where you see them bring the men in, it had the tendency to go straight over the viewers head. The violence was captured well, I did not think it was overdone but the final battle needed to be longer and more climatic, I do not agree with the directors decision to show the films climax as flashbacks while an officer talks about how good Australia is, that would have been more fitting towards the beginning of the film.The camera was well done, as was most of the acting, none of the average acting is likely to get picked apart, I just felt like quality over quantity was not the case with this movie, it felt a lot more like the director ran out of things to say, which should not have been the case.It was a moving film, even if it did leave much of its content half baked, but it could have been a lot better as it only scratched the surface of so much of it's content. At the most I would only give this movie a 6-7. Not because what is in it is bad, simple because there is not enough of it and important areas of the content have been skimmed over.

A totally pathetic attempt at movie about sacrifices of Australian Soldiers during the New Guinea Campaign. Total waste of money even if you only see it on DVD. Thankfully the video store provided a free weekly hire with the DVD else it would have been a complete waste of money. Probably made by arty types and full of the symbolism that today's Chardonay socialists seem so into. Frankly this movie is an insult to the memory of the brave chaps that never came back. Somebody please provide the funding to make a decent movie at least the equal of Saving Private Ryan. Hopefully the RSL will put as much distance between itself and this movie as possible. The story needs to be told from all sides the Australians, the locals & the Japanese - Although getting the latter to tell the truth about anything that happened during the second world war is highly unlikely. Basically its rubbish, don't see it, don't buy it. Walk away