movies are a funny thing, ya know...i LOVED the lord of the rings trilogy, and yet one interviewer i hear on the radio gave the first film a d, because it was too complicated with too many characters.
imagine...an epic film with too many characters. that film reviewer went on to give cat in the hat a b plus...go figure...
i thought the love story was pretty stupid in the great raid...you never really understood where it came from.
that's hollywood though. did you read that article a week or so ago by the screenwriter confessing he was a republican, and how incredibly ill informed and stupid the people with whom he works are? how they want to pc everything so it fits into their world view? they don't understand true patriotism or nobility.
i loved the great raid....and wish we had more movies like it, flaws and all.
Read, "Bored of the Rings".