Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

I am going to say now, as someone who disliked 'The Human Centipede' for the intended purpose and found it bad enough to be funny, you are better off watching that.The movie is shot most probably on a DSLR in black and white. The conversion into black and white was unbearably Grey with obnoxious 'old film' effects. Overall the filming is very amateur, shaky and melodramatic. While there is a small handful of clever and interesting shots and overlays, most of them look pretentious and try-hard. Think 16 year old girl film project and windows movie maker.The prisoners are all white females obviously cast from America's next top model, and a couple of Russian men. This is largely historically inaccurate considering in real life most of the prisoners were Chinese or Korean of all ages, not just a bunch of white hipsters. AND FOR GOD'S SAKE WHO THE F**K THOUGHT PUTTING MASCARA ON PRISONERS WAS A GOOD IDEA? The acting itself was overall tacky and cringey to watch. The Asian nurse was the only decent actress, even then, her face is covered with a medical mask most of the time, and her makeup is far too modern, she has ipod headphones dangling out of her pocket in one scene, which is laughable. The cast of prisoners are healthy, white, middle class, attractive, plump, groomed and moody-teenage looking, this would be fine.. if you know.. they weren't supposed to be starving, suffering and psychologically disturbed war prisoners. It is beyond me why the producer thought he wanted the prisoners to look so prime and polished, I'm astounded to think that anyone with half a brain would think to have actresses with long brushed and shiny hair, perfect makeup (with absolutely no attempt in making them look tired or haggard)and plump curvy figures, cast in a film about some of the most malnourished and tormented prisoners of all time. The Asian male doctor looks like he's just stepped out of a Korean boy band, they could have at the very least styled his hair to look 1940's. Why is he wearing eyeliner?! The entire cast are unconvincing and substandard actors. As a very squeamish person, i didn't even flinch. The gore was well produced in places, but the actors couldn't carry it. Screams of what was supposed to be agony looked like dodgy orgasms in some sort of soviet bdsm porn. The prisoners are calm and serene being led around. There is no kicking, struggle or fuss, not even the guards restraining them as they lead them to the operating room. They just lay down on the operating table compliantly, which is ridiculous. There is a rape scene in the film that is just completely ridiculous and had me laughing at how poorly acted it was.The whole film is poorly written and very historically inaccurate, therefore making it very difficult to believe. There is no way in hell a Japanese war doctor is going to flirt with a prisoner, i felt this was some sort of mockery , and absolutely out of place. I can see the director trying to write in some romance to make the movie ever-so-slightly less dull, but it was just utterly disrespectful to the rape victims of the real unit 713 and to a degree racially insensitive and ignorant of the well documented historic Japanese attitudes to foreigners. Other historic inaccuracies included sedation. The real Unit 713 preformed abortions and vivisection's without anesthetic, painkillers or any sort of sedation, this not only would have been much more interesting to see on screen, but made a world of difference in historical accuracy. Operations were also preformed laughably, doctors removing all sorts of organs like picking tomatoes out of a salad, while patients in pristine makeup look barely phased but let out the occasional girlish scream. Not even a drip of sweat on their faces or their lipstick smudging. Props used, such as a toy baby are again laughable. The only positive thing i can comment on is the well made opening credits and mixing of archive footage to trendy music.The film is a massive waste of time overall, and you're better off gnawing your own appendages for better a quality entertainment and insight into the Japanese war atrociousness.

OK, OK. So the Japanese did horrible experiments on Russians and Chinese during the pre- WW2 and WW2 era. But this film is a poor excuse for a documentary of that era. No actual footage of the experiments are extant, and all the re-creations in this film are very poorly done, especially for a 2008 film! I really don't understand why this director (and I use the title very grudgingly!) bothered to make this film.Most of this film is falling snow, actors staring melodramatically at each other and the camera, shots of hallways, and standard diagrams of medical instruments and surgical procedures. I suppose these scenes are some artsy attempt to build tension or an atmosphere of menace and despair; but they fail at all of these purposes miserably! I fell asleep several times during the incessantly repeated long periods of symbolism and silent melodrama between the actual heinous acts of experimentation! The director seemed more intent on spending lots of time on repeating over and over his own symbolic expressionism and giving his few lousy actors plenty of camera exposure as they stare at one another and into the camera. Close-ups of actors' eyes and faces, snow falling in blizzards outdoors, empty hallways, doorways, etc. ad nauseum!What a colossal bore, and a narcissistic insult to the memory of the people to whom this film is supposedly dedicated!One scene really puzzled me: the first atrocity that is dramatized in this film is the surgical removal of a Russian woman's unborn child. It reminded me very much of a modern abortion, which is legal in the US and most of Europe, except here the child is removed surgically instead of being poisoned in-utero and vacuumed out vaginally. The film seemed to make much of the body of the dead infant as it was removed and thrown into a specimen tray; this same heinous act against humanity is performed thousands of times legally every day in so-called "civilized" countries throughout the world. Other than the woman's consent, there is little difference between what the Japanese experimenters do and what modern-day abortionists do. So why should this scene even be worth inclusion?The special effects are very phony and done with lots of putty, latex, and camera tricks that are about as new as Orson Welles and Citizen Kane. A very poorly done effort at film-making in general, and a narcissistic slight against the memory of the people victimized.What a snore!

The past reviewer was spot on, so much unnecessary footage. If you're going to pretend that this is an honest interpretation of what actually happened then keep the ratio of snow-white-perfectly-proportioned-westerner victims in check compared to the normal domestic test subjects who were vastly underrepresented in this picture. They claim that they weren't trying to demonize the Japanese in that incredibly pretentious let-me-tell-you-how-to-interpret-this-movie segment at the beginning, but It sure seemed like the majority of horrors of war were apportioned to one side. War is dirty, war is nasty, war is savage. The Japanese did many evil things, and had many evil things done to them by Westerners, a little balance would be nice.

This epic is 4 hours long. Much of that 4 hours is the exterior of a building which may or may not be the one in question. In a prologue the director and I think one of the producers tell us, among other things, that they "did not research" a lot of the facts.But they say their work is based on facts and that the movie is supposed to be about death and war....There is a fair amount of interesting stuff in the movie, enough for maybe 90 minutes. But not 4 hours. I think they wanted to give the viewer some sense of ennui by showing the building the falling snow from this angle, from that angle, from another angle...all with no narration over and over. It seemed like about 2 minutes of story and 5 minutes of exterior of building in the falling snow for 4 hours.I may be exaggerating, but not much. As for the story....Those who know about Unit 731 may be offended by this film as an effort to cash in on a grisly reputation. Others may be offended by it's portrayal of one American and several Russians as the victims of Unit 731. I am pretty sure the majority of victims were a very diverse group consisting of P.O.W.s from all who fought against Japan, Chinese locals and even Japanese criminals. Pregnant women as well as children were also prey to the heinous Japanese "doctors" of Unit 731.Regardless, the whole thing to me comes off as lame bondage/torture-porn. That you MIGHT get some idea of a story out of if you take notes when they are actually speaking. Even if you are looking for Bondage/toture-porn keep the remote handy, you have a lot of the building in the falling snow from this angle, from that angle, from another angle...all with no narration over and over to fast forward through.