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Hell in the Pacific (1968)
Rate:
4
Viewed:
12/14
12/14:
Seven Samurai meets
The Dirty Dozen.
In Hell in the Pacific, Toshiro Mifune battles Lee Marvin on some island for 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 mimicking
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 surrender pronto.
All in all, Hell in the Pacific was a box-office failure back then, and I can see why.