The direction at times seems to borrow too many elements from Eastwood's films without developing the characters who are the heart of this enormous story and... turn out to be quite flat and two-dimensional at times. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 23, 2024

“Unbroken” is a competent and well-intentioned movie centered around an inspiring true story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 21, 2022

The film has been carefully constructed into a blind adoration instead of a worthy portrait; it captures events, but not people, not gradations.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 13, 2022

"Jolie didn't make a bad movie, and 'Unbroken' might have even won Best Picture 20 years ago, but you can't throw the star under the bus -- especially in a biopic -- and let the antagonist destroy one of the most powerful scenes."

| Jun 27, 2022

There's a strength to be found in witnessing this portion of the Louis Zamperini story, no matter how ugly it is and how hard it is to watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2022

Zamperini's story in Unbroken can be an inspiration to think about forgiveness.

| Aug 12, 2021

This is a harrowing and haunting film that leaves you feeling grateful to be alive.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 27, 2021

As well intentioned - and patriotic and high minded and valorous - as Jolie's presentation of the film is, it falls short on this one, very major, aspect of the story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2021

The entertainment value of nonstop, brutal punishment with little hope of personal retribution or adventuresome escape is limited at best.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 4, 2020

Once the indomitable spirit of the man is revealed, the movie finds a sturdy, stirring tone which carries it well through some very tough going.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 6, 2020

It's long, uninteresting, and paced like one of those nightmares where you keep trying to run BUT YOU CAN'T! It's that bad.

| Apr 10, 2020

Beautifully, if sometimes too glossily mounted, Angelina Jolie's sophomore effort as a director, Unbroken, is too poker faced to enjoy either as a dramatic motion picture or a document of an excruciating, unnecessary experience.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 19, 2019

Unbroken doesn't penetrate the surface of emotions, remaining a slightly detached, albeit respectful, representation of a potentially touching and inspiring true story.

| Aug 5, 2019

A solid film with a great story that is ultimately unremarkable in its telling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 5, 2019

Though excelling with casting, Jolie's direction falls short in style and execution; cheesy dissolves and trite biopic techniques are distractingly formulaic, fracturing absorption with Unbroken's brutal and shocking content.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 17, 2019

Unbroken should feel like a horror movie (I can't imagine a more frightening existence than Zamperini's time in the prison), but instead feels like a pedestrian, gussied-up biopic.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Mar 20, 2019

The posters claim the movie is about "Survival. Resilience. Redemption," but it only gives us the first two, and the finished product is less effective because of it.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 25, 2018

The result is the telling of a good story, but not an illuminating one.

| Original Score: B | Dec 20, 2018

This film, based on the biography of the same title, is lukewarm, at best.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 2, 2018

A lacklustre and dull film about an incredibly remarkable man.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 22, 2018