Battle for Saipan

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?

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.

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.

Inauthentic, script was banal, costuming not historically accurate, fight scenes like a B Kung-Fu movie. Formulaic and uninspired.

This movie plays like a mediocre made for TV drama and just doesn't involve or demand much from the audience. I frankly couldn't finish watching it because I found it insulting and trite. I was disappointed to have paid good cash to see it and have it be so unoriginal and pedestrian. I only hope that some day a filmmaker will approach the Battle of Saipan authentically because it was truly a horrific sacrifice of American lives and deserves a better treatment than this refuse.

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!