Even though it feels like while you are watching Brandon Slagle’s (The Flood, Frost) Battle for Saipan that you have seen this film before, it still manages to be a decent war film.

This true story is certainly worthy of a good movie, but the one we actually get here, hampered by a low budget, baffling choices, and general going-through-the-motions filmmaking, isn't it.

This simplistic, one-note waste of time and energy is barely fit even for the gung-ho demographic that would ordinarily relish yet another cinematic military victory for the USA.

Monotonous, tedious and exhausting. Just as shallow and bland as Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor or a forgettable 80's Canon Group movie.