Sadly Over-hyped

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

The beginning made it look cheap right of the bat. Odd beginning should have worked in the old Wwii footage later. The story is OK at best, the cgi is terrible the cgi shark was laugh out loud weird never seen a shark look that bad. The the soundtrack is odd for a war movie, it just struck me as to upbeat. Did the director find a friend to do the music cheap? The acting is not bad. I like the captain as an actor last house on the left great movie. No way people are giving this 9's that's why I agree about the fake reviews. Half way through the movie I was thinking I better check the reviews again something is not right. Haha

IMDb is an awesome site. It is the go to place for information about movies and TV show. Of course, there's a downside to this; filmmakers, their friends and family, all know that a review on this site will be seen by thousands. Hence, the fake reviews and by fake I mean people who are pumping up the movie so that people go and see it. These fakes are easy to spot.So here's how to spot the fake reviews for this movie:This film was shown in New Orleans on Nov 22, 2014.On Nov 23d of 2014, the very next day, six (count them **six**) people all came and reviewed this film. All *very* positive. ("Excellent film…" "Absolutely loved it!" "excellent story and production" "Strong story, and great acting by Tom Felton") And guess what, if you look at the profiles of all these six people, they have only reviewed *one single* movie ever, and guess which one that movie was? Yup! "Against the Sun." And none of these six awesome reviewers have *ever* returned to IMDb to review any other movie. Suspicious? I think so!By the way, everyone comes to IMDb and just looks at the stars and the reviews, which as I just proved are worthless. If you want to know the truth, click on the links for the message boards for this movie and this is what you will see:"The Sharknado movies had better CGI sharks." "Did people in the military routinely wear jeans during missions?" "Hats off to the writers who managed to stretch a few chapters from a book to create a 100 min movie without any acknowledgment of original work or author except for identical plot points and character conflicts. "Don't waste your time with "Against the Sun." Really awful and fake Computer Generated effects start it out and within minutes you are in a raft, where you will spend the rest of the movie. How's that for super low budget?Mediocre acting. Mediocre story. Mediocre direction. Mediocre movie. Thousands of other good movies around that will fill your time better.

This movie i watched after Unbroken By (Ang Jolle) filmed in Australia The opening sequence almost mirrors the plight of pilots that have to ditch their planes, and is a fantastic story. BUT it is almost the same as the first half of Jolle's Film. At Least her film moves from Raft to rescue to Internment. Whereas this movie is solely concerned with the guys on the raft.Same stuff, plane ditched, everyone in rafts, Long time at sea, catching sharks etc. Only difference is these guys make it to an island after 1000 plus miles at sea.If I had to watch the two movies again, Give me Unbroken Any day. Even though Both are true stories.

I have to say I was not expecting much when I watched this movie so I was glad that I more than wrong. Just a great movie all around, really well acted and a great pace that had me enthralled from the get go. Felton really proved his acting chops and should hopefully open some more doors for him. I thought Aldrich was great as well and Dillahunt as well. Obviously not a big budget blockbuster and further proof that a good story and solid acting can go along way. The ordeals that these men faced was really something and it was portrayed magnificently by the director. I would love to see the real back story of these men and hopefully if they ever get a chance to add it in a package with extras I would purchase it. Again I highly recommend this little gem