Last Patrol on Okinawa

A classic example of people needing to write about what they know and refrain from writing about what they know nothing about. I thought at first this was going to be animated because of the weird opening scene, but then it morphed into real acting. Real poor acting. Real poor acting by people with no feel for the characters they are trying to portray, reading words written by people with no feel for the era which they are trying to convey. Other than the uniforms, which are too clean and intact for a unit on Okinawa in the aftermath of the bloodiest battle in WWII, the actors do not look like Marines and they do not speak like Marines, and they do not act like Marines. I didn't last ten minutes in before I had to turn it off.

Whoever wrote this has no idea what life in the military is like, even less of an idea of what life in the 1940s was like, and not the first clue of what the Battle of Okinawa was like. Thank goodness it's a short film with no plot, because I don't think I could've made myself sit through even one additional minute of it.

On the upside, the uniforms were very clean and pretty.

30 minutes of dribble. Nothing more. Their uniforms were spotless though, guess that's a plus. Not sure what the writer and director were thinking. Thank goodness it was only 30m. I fast-forward through 20m of it.

At first I thought it was going to the animated because of the cartoon airplanes at the beginning but it ends up even worse. Absolutely pathetic script. Academy award winners couldn't make this writing work. The whole thing feels so amateurish. I made it about 8 minutes.

Don't waste your time.

Oof. Even at less than 30 minutes, this is tough to watch. Classic example of "on the nose writing". Feels like a school project. The jury is in on Doohan. And it's not good. I didn't like him in Your Honor and even less so in this.