Truly Dreadful Film

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This is one of the better period films I've seen from WWII. (By 'period films' I mean 'films created during the war.') And while it has some issues (more on those in a bit), 'Objective, Burma!' manages to tell an effective story while avoiding most of the pratfalls you often see in those other efforts.Plot in a nutshell: American paratroopers undertake a secret mission behind enemy lines in Burma, and while their objective is met with relative ease, their escape from Burma is not.Errol Flynn is very good here and it was a welcome departure from his 'Robin Hood' and 'Captain Blood' roles. Although still playing the 'lead,' his character, Captain Nelson, does not engage in the flag-waving bravado so typical of WWII-era films. Also noticeably - and thankfully - absent from this film is any kind of cheesy romantic angle, like those found in "They Were Expendable" and "Pride of the Marines," among many others. This is a straight-up men-on-a-mission tale which then morphs into a struggle for survival. In some ways this film reminded me of 1987's "Predator" (with the Japanese enemy taking the place of the pursuing alien).On the negative side, it's a bit too long at 140+ minutes. Some of the elements feel repetitive - you are stuck in the jungle, we get it. There is a bit of "we are good, Japanese are bad and subhuman" thrown in, so the film is not totally immune from that familiar wartime trope. And most notably, the film focuses solely on American soldiers, while in reality the Burma campaign was mostly a U.K./British Commonwealth operation with an assist from the U.S. Watching this you get the impression Burma was another U.S. affair like the Pacific island-hopping campaign, and that's the reason Winston Churchill had it pulled from U.K. theaters after one week.7/10. Above-average WWII flick, but loses a few points for length/repetition and historical inaccuracy. Would I watch again (Y/N)?: Yes.

Although total fiction, which most war movies are, It's a shame this movie was banned in England because it didn't show any Brits in action. To them this movie was historically incorrect. Yes, we know the Brits were present in large numbers fighting in Burma and not so much the Yanks. So when an all American company was sent to Burma to knock out a radar tower in favor of the Brits that just rubbed them wrong. Now If the movie had a different title like, "OBJECTIVE TARAWA" they would be praising this movie as one of the greats which it was. This movie had everything a war movie should have,great acting by all, especially Flynn, realistic looking locations, and the shoot em up scenes we so realistic for the times not like an exaggerated Shoot em up Stalone move. And that exciting survival journey through the Burmese jungle will keep you glued to your seat. I agree with the other comments on Errol Flynn this was his best performance.

" . . . wipe 'Em off the Face of the Earth!" suggests "Pops," the embedded paratrooper\reporter, in light of just the most recent violation of the Geneva Conventions by the Japanese during WWII. This exact quote from OPERATION, BURMA! fell on deaf ears, tragically giving rise to America's current Ruling Class of Nippon Confederates, popularized 24\7 on their Fox "News" Disinformation Networks. As Millenials smugly tool down America's highways in their Toyotas and Hondas, blaring away their Country tunes, they're being picked off one-by-one from shrapnel blasted out of tens of millions of Trojan Horse Takata Corp. Airbags. In 1945, the U.S. War Department dictated a closing scroll message for OPERATION, BURMA!: "This story will end only when the Evil forces of Japan are totally destroyed." But they and their Confederate allies rule the roost in America today, due to a feckless Namby-Pamby "live and let live" flaw in our National Character. Surely U.S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur, and Errol Flynn are dizzy from constantly turning over in their graves.

Objective, Burma! is one of the best war movies to come out of the WWII era. It is reasonably realistic given the constraints of the time period, and keeps the patriotic fanfare to a minimum. The film follows the travails of soldiers on a special mission to destroy a Japanese radar station after they get stuck behind enemy lines.What makes this film better than average is its second half, which concentrates on the soldiers' struggle for survival in the Burmese forest. The film plays up the lack of supplies, with the attendant threat of starvation, and the casualties. Although the film does some of the typical telegraphing of who will die, the deaths are still affecting.Objective, Burma eschews the patriotic fanfare characterizing many other World War II movies, wisely focusing on the challenges faced by the soldiers. Although there is some racism directed at the Japanese, such as referring to them as monkeys, this is minimal compared to other contemporary films.