"Return from the River Kwai" is a war movie that abuses of bad clichés and is disrespectful with films such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai" or "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence".
Not a typical war movie. This movie isn't that polished but the story is worth telling and quite shocking.
A very average little war movie with no relation to the original "Bridge on the River Kwai" other than in name and a brief bit at the start. It's just a pure latter-day cash-in on the name of the original in fact.
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a quality war film from director Sir David Lean and starring the Oscar winning Sir Alec Guinness, I'm not sure you can call this follow up a sequel, but it does almost continue the story, from director Andrew V. McLaglen (Shenandoah).
By summer 1943 on the Asian mainland , Japanese troops had overrun much of the southeast Asia . They had conquered what is now Malasya and Burma .
This was one of the late-night films on last night's TV and having seen it I was wondering if there were some pretty dodgy reviews on IMDb.com.
If the old guard and war purists thought the epic Guiness-Holden-Hawkins war film was unreal, they'd reconsider that film as being totally credible when compared to this.One wouldn't think that a film made in 1989 would be devoid of realism in war.
In short; yes, this movie is extremely bad.It's best not to see this movie as a sequel to David Lean's "The Bridge on the River Kwai" at all, or else you'll be even more offended by this movie.
This was a belated attempt to cash-in on the monumental and fully deserved success of 'The Bridge On The River Kwai'. So good was the original that even an advertisement for pile-dressing that contained the words 'River Kwai' could be sure of a substantial, if uncomfortable market.
