Kokoda (2006)

Kokoda: Directed by Alister Grierson. With Jack Finsterer, Travis McMahon, Simon Stone, Luke Ford. A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Guinea during World War II.

“While The Mud, The Sickness and the Unsettling Horrors, Of fighting a war in the Papuan Rainforest, Against the seemingly unstopable (Albeit Mis-Represented!) Japanese foe are well captured..The soldiers u0026quot;Chocosu0026quot; personalities however?, Are not! u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe viewer is just not given a lot of background information on these men…Where they came from?, Why they were fighting?..Etc!.., Leaving the viewer not really caring, As to who survives the ordeal.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOn top of that, The movie is affected by a slightly heavyhanded bit of Australian Nationalism, Not thatu0026#39;s an overly bad thing?, Itu0026#39;s just that itu0026#39;s feels u0026#39;shoehornedu0026#39; in, For the occasion of the movie release..ANZAC Day!”