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Hell in the Pacific (1968)

Rate: 4
Viewed: 12/14

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12/14: Seven Samurai meets The Dirty Dozen.

In Hell in the Pacific, Toshiro Mifune battles Lee Marvin on some island in what seems to be a clash of Eastern and Western philosophies of what it means to be an ape.

There must have been less than 200 spoken words throughout the entire film. All I saw is two actors trying to mimic the behavior of monkeys with me trying to figure out what it's exactly they're aiming at. Because I read Robinson Crusoe, I knew building a wooden raft was necessary in order to escape the island, but why did it have to take so long?

The ending is comical because these two men just blow themselves up, and that's it. Probably the filmmakers had run out of money and were therefore forced to give up on the movie pronto.

All in all, Hell in the Pacific was a box-office failure back then, and I can see why.