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Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

fredgfinklemeyer 07/31/2018 Movie does NOT portray history in any way. All you're going to be watching will be a small group of "Aussie cowards" hiding out in the jungle trying to NOT get killed by invading japs. (2) hours of wasted movie watching time. Lead In Movie Quote: A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kodoka trail in New Guinea during World War II. Comment: NO Bitter Battles in this movie. Wiki quote: The Kadoka Track campaign or Kodoka Trail campaign was part of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign consisted of a series of battles fought between July and November 1942 in what was then the Australian Territory of Papua. It was primarily a land battle, between the Japanese South Seas Detachment under Major General Tomtaro Horii and Australian and Papuan land forces. The Japanese objective was to seize Port Moresby by an overland advance from the north coast, following the Kodoka Track over the mountains of the Owen Stanley Range, as part of a strategy to isolate Australia from the United States.

llareggub Kokoda is not perfect. Nor is Beneath Hill 60. What they share is being 21st century Australian war movies. With a miniscule budget, both crafted a realistic but reverent portrait of accidental heroes on strange Queensland sets, Tamborine and Townsville respectively. Malick did an overblown Hollywood $50million extravaganza in Mossman a couple of years beforehand, proving all war is pointless. Sorry, Terrence, but you are dead wrong. Civilisation is worth protecting. I had no idea this was Alister Grierson's first outing. It seems so much more accomplished. There is a script waiting for you- Peter Ryan's "Fear Drive My Feet".

dheaver1 I'm a bit confused..... The alternative title to the movie, released as a steel-book is 38th Battalion, Kokoda The 38 the battalion, according to Wikipedia, never served in PNG, in fact, only served on the Australian mainland!This may be a mistake, by the makers of the steel-book edition, but you would think they'd have got it correct, in order to stay historically correct. I found it to be quite a good movie, however some of the night time scenes were hard to view. This is, of course, a problem with any movie, and lack of funds probably added to this problem. All in all, not too bad, but with this being such a part of Australia's history, you would hope someone else re-makes it, sometime.

Sabinfrost I wouldn't recommend this movie... it was alright, but it was too short, an hour and a half didn't leave any real room for character development. If you want to focus on the unsung heroes of battle the world is unaware of, but is close to so many Australian's hearts you actually need to give those heroes a decent amount of screen time. I liked the inclusion of the "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels", they deserve to make a showing in a film, unfortunately it was underdone, towards the end where you see them bring the men in, it had the tendency to go straight over the viewers head. The violence was captured well, I did not think it was overdone but the final battle needed to be longer and more climatic, I do not agree with the directors decision to show the films climax as flashbacks while an officer talks about how good Australia is, that would have been more fitting towards the beginning of the film.The camera was well done, as was most of the acting, none of the average acting is likely to get picked apart, I just felt like quality over quantity was not the case with this movie, it felt a lot more like the director ran out of things to say, which should not have been the case.It was a moving film, even if it did leave much of its content half baked, but it could have been a lot better as it only scratched the surface of so much of it's content. At the most I would only give this movie a 6-7. Not because what is in it is bad, simple because there is not enough of it and important areas of the content have been skimmed over.