Rating of
4/4
Spectaculur spectacle from David Lean.
Ichabod Crane - wrote on 02/11/09
David Lean films are all shot just about perfectly all the ones I have seen anyways. That reason alone gives you one reason to watch the Bridge over the River Kwai, but there are also many others. The performances are all great particularly Alec Guinness shows his stuff as he always does in this slightly humorous role of a colonel who has an odd sense of duty, and Sessue Hayakawa, as a Japanese commander who has the camp basically taken from him. It is not like any war epic you will see because the story is much more complicated than they usually are with its incredibly original and deep characters, or a prison camp movie because of what occurs in it. There is simply nothing like the bridge over the river Kwai, although I never go full positive and act blindly to the slightly tacked on young guy character who is not original or deep. But he hardly ruins the movie, which surely should be watched.
Oscar Win Best Actor Alec Guinness 6- One of the best winners ever Guinness is great in every scene he is in. He makes you understand his character being as strange as he is. He is perfect as Colonel Nicholson who is a hard character to comprehend but Guinness does with perfect ability and quite a bit of Humor actually.
Oscar Nominee Best Supporting Actor Sessue Hayakawa 6- Sessue Hayakawa plays his role just as well as Guinness plays his which is really well. A commandant character that could have possibly been stock if played poorly but Hayakawa plays him so well that I actually felt sorry for his character at the end of the film which is hard for a character like his.
