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Good concept, poorly executed.

Excellent but underrated film

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

AGAINST THE SUN is a low budget WW2 thriller about a crew of three US airmen whose plane crash-lands in the middle of the Pacific, leaving them stranded on a tiny life raft with no supplies and literally hundreds of miles from the nearest land mass. The hook is that this is a true story, so that everything you see taking place on screen really happened, albeit with the usual artistic licence.Films like this I tend to enjoy and AGAINST THE SUN is no exception. It's no masterpiece, it's not even particularly memorable, but it does keep you watching from beginning to end and I was never bored for a moment. The script focuses on the characters and pleasingly enough keeps things entirely realistic; there are only a few tacked-on dream sequences and fantasy moments to get in the way. I liked the story's grounding in realism and the way that the three men had to use their wits in order to keep them alive.The movie is a little cheesy in places, with some lacklustre CGI here and there and JAWS music playing whenever the sharks are on screen. For the most part it works though. The plane scenes early on are very realistic. Garret Dillahunt puts in a solid turn as the eldest of the three and feels very convincing and assured while Tom Felton does an admirable American accent and convinces in his part. Some might find AGAINST THE SUN rather predictable and it's true to say that this kind of story has been done to death over the years, but I find there's still mileage in the material with the right script and direction and this film has both.

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

I just saw this pretty recent film off Amazon Prime, and half-way through I'm thinking it's probably loosely based on the same story featured in the recent movie, "Unbroken". After doing some research, however, I found out that the two are completely unrelated, which I'm like- TWO different true stories of three soldiers stranded on a raft in the middle of the ocean in WWII-???Garrett Dillahunt ("Raising Hope") plays the leader of these three, and I think one of the other guys was from the "Harry Potter" movies. No matter- I'll give this movie a borderline recommendation since you do find yourself concerned about these three characters as they try to survive. I also liked Dillahunt's performance, especially *possible SPOILER* since his character ultimately blames himself for the whole thing- even suggests he should be court martialed. And if you've already seen the recent Angelina Jolie-directed "Unbroken", which is basically done in three acts- 1) story of an Olympian, 2) survival story of soldiers stranded on raft in ocean, 3) POW camp story- THIS movie is basically Act II of that film. So if you have seen "Unbroken" already, you've basically seen this one, and may just want to skip it..

I was fortunate enough to see a screening of this film before its theatrical release. As a student of history and a lover of films, I would highly recommend this film to both history and film buffs. All three of the main characters give well rounded performances, but I was equally impressed with the Cinematography and Musical Score. In my opinion, there are not enough Independent, low budget films like "Against the Sun", let alone historically accurate ones. Its unfortunate that films like this don't get the larger theatrical release that they so richly deserve. It is my understanding that the film's main audience will come as a result of it's digital release so hopefully it will get the recognition it deserves.