Everybody has already watched lots of war films where good soldiers go fight the bad guys in some other country because of something terrible these bad guys have done, right? Right! This is "Gung Ho!"! But please keep calm, you who like this movie! This is just a small joke about this kind of film. "Gung Ho!" was made in 1943, so years before of many of movie pictures like it. Actually, it's one of the first war movies ever made, and, like "Guadalcanal Diary" (1943), mas made when the II World War was still going on. At that time, war movies wasn't so common, so "Gun Ho!" has nothing of cliché. To cut it short, this film is good and kind of original. And it's also like a document since it was done under the real atmosphere of war. The movie is American and was done after the Pearl Harbor attack, so the hate for the Japanese was strong.
In the story, a group of soldiers is called to go on a special mission that is attacking a Japanese island as an answer for the tragedy in Pearl Harbor. The soldiers are selected one by one, through an interview where they end up talking about their personal lives, and makes us feel close to them and feel sorry for them as the film goes on and they start suffering and unfortunately passing away. "Gung Ho!" is a good film, even today, 62 years after it was made. I imagine the impact and the shock it caused in 1943, when it was released...
My rate 7/10
In the story, a group of soldiers is called to go on a special mission that is attacking a Japanese island as an answer for the tragedy in Pearl Harbor. The soldiers are selected one by one, through an interview where they end up talking about their personal lives, and makes us feel close to them and feel sorry for them as the film goes on and they start suffering and unfortunately passing away. "Gung Ho!" is a good film, even today, 62 years after it was made. I imagine the impact and the shock it caused in 1943, when it was released...
My rate 7/10