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Title: A Sadistic, Messianic Mess
Review: In spite of a good cast and decent technical production values, "To End All Wars" seemed an endless torture fest, interlacing brutish sequences of POW camp violence with heavy-handed Christian allegory. On both scores, the film has all the nuance of a sledge hammer, and ultimately feels both over-blown and over-bearing. After viewing "The Passion," then this, I'm prompted to wonder what is it about sadism that gets "Christian" film makers so turned on? For a real movie on the POW experience in WWII Japanese war camps, stick with "Bridge on the River Kwai," of which "To End All Wars" is but an inferior imitation.
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