Blu ray movie review of The Pacific

With so much success with Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, it was no brainer for Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg to team up again for another war drama. This time, they decided to focus on the Pacific theater of the World War II. Aptly titled The Pacific, the drama follows several characters as they go from beginning of the war to the surrender of Japanese that marked the end of the war. Being a big fan of Band of Brothers, I had very big expectations when The Pacific was announced. Some have expressed little let down when compared to its predecessor. However, The Pacific is a very fine series even if it is very different from Band of Brothers.

While The Pacific does follow some central characters, it does not come close to Band of Brothers in terms of character driven war drama. We get to follow the Easy Company from start to finish in Band of Brothers. In The Pacific, the focus is on the entire Pacific theater of operation. This isn’t to say that there aren’t any character developments in The Pacific. On the contrary, we do get to follow central characters throughout the war. But the stark differences in the battle and battle conditions are clearly there for us to delineate Band of Brothers from The Pacific. For one thing, the weather plays big part in The Pacific. While we do see the bitter cold conditions in Band of Brother in few episodes, the constant rain and wet conditions permeate the island fighting from start to finish.

The realistic portrayal of war in Band of Brother is carried on by The Pacific. The producers of The Pacific pull no punches in depicting the horrors of the war. In one scene, we witness Japanese sending wave of civilians to be used as human shields. While the action and storytelling are excellent, I do feel like we missed out on getting to really know the central characters. The character development could have been better even with the wrap up on the series on the last episode. Overall, this is series that should not be missed by anyone. Buy it and watch it on every Veterans Day.

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