My Way, “Inspired by a true
story” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606384
From what I gather this is a Korean film shot
in Latvia. Let’s see if you can follow the plot. It follows two kids in Japanese
occupied Korean (pre war) one Japanese- one Korean. Korean family is poor, Japanese
family is rich. Kids do not get along as they are marathon rivals. Japanese kid
becomes colonel in Japanese Army, Koran lowly private in his unit. They fight
the Russians in Manchuria (some really fun suicide missions blowing up tanks
here), but are captured and sent to Siberian POW work Camp.
Germany invades Russia and they get drafted as privates
(remember, one was a colonel of the Japanese army). The fight a mad charge
against German machine guns (taken almost verbatim from “Enemy at the Gates,”
and somehow they desert and are found by the Germans. So they get drafted by the Germans into an Ost
Battalion. Where are they sent to work? You got it- Normandy. Omaha Beach to be
exact.
Now comes what has to be the greatest, most amazing and
spectacular D-Day scene EVER!!!!!
(note: five exclamation points rating). A fighter crashes
into their trench following them running down it towards the camera and they
are narrowly missed by the wreckage. Explosions!!
Bombers (Memphis Belle). Massive Allied fleet. GI’s run in in landing craft
(SPR), and we find out two friends held at gunpoint by an evil Nazi officer to
fire machine guns at the Americans. Americans land and fire Ranger style grappling
hooks to climb up to the concrete bunker (no cliff here, just a beach with a
ridge of sand behind it). They seem to not see the tourist wooden stairway going
to the top of the sand dune. More big explosions and the two guys escape their
bunker and run away across a field. 16” Naval guns pound around them, with
explosions like small hand grenades.
Even though it is daylight, paratroopers start landing, and
surround the two guys in a circle. Sadly, the Korean is wounded (in the heart) so he gives his dog tag to the Japanese
guy saying if the Americans find out he is a Jap they will kill him. Korean
Dies, Jap cries, and we see later on the Japanese guy has assumed the Koreans
identity and WINS the Olympic marathon in his name. Hooray! War is Bad! Human spirit triumphs over
badness.
Now, what is really weird is that most of the props and
uniforms and CGI are really pretty good. It’s the story that makes it a near
laughable film. I admit I enjoyed the first half pretty much, but then when
they join the German army all credibility goes away and it was more
astonishment that someone actually wrote this, and more so that they actually made
it. Even more so that have the balls to say it is “Inspired
by a true story.”
Seriously, the ending D-day sequence is pretty hysterical to
watch as it is a combination of decent uniforms and equipment, but horrendous plot.
As if someone looked at the pictures in books but was unable to read the text. That and they bought any CGI items that had
already been programmed. In fact for a while I wondered if they had just
purchased clips from other war films to use. I can only assume the "inspired by"
means "Inspired by all the WW2 war films the author went to see and
realized made lots of money."
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