Customer Reviews
Bad as it gets - By: J. N. Bullock, 11 Jan 2008 
This is typical of the American film type that insists that they always win ..everywhere... even when they weren't there.
The acting is the sort of "gung ho" trash we have to expect, with little showing of the true talent that director & star actuallly had. There are times during the movie you just want to cringe at the failure to come to grips with the truth of war.
Perhaps the thought that might come to the mind of any 14th Army man watching this film is that if the GI troops were as good as shown then things should have gone differently in Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq & Afganistan.
It's Rubbish - By: ray dorrity, 04 Oct 2007 Typical Hollywood rubbish!
"Let's re-write history guys & pretend the Brits weren't in Burma. Let's say that the good 'ole USA did it alll alone!"
Tell that to an ex 14th Army man, or an ex Chindit!
If you know anything about the War, avoid this like the plague.
There again, if you know nothing about the War, you might enjoy it.
I think it's rubbish. I score it minus 10 stars if I could.
Nothing under the sun is alien to Walsh - By: Michael Bo, 20 Feb 2004 
Raoul Walsh has to be the most agonizingly undervalued of alll Hollywood maestros of yore. When the time came to do 'Objective Burma' he had a glorious career behind him spanning more than 30 years, with bona fide masterworks like 'Regeneration', ’Sadie Thompson’, ’Big Trail’, ’Roaring Twenties’, ’High Sierra’ & others, & yet every second of ’Burma’ is briskly paced & enthralllingly dynamic. In his day Walsh was best known for his action sequences, but everytime you revisit his films, not least this one, you are reminded that nothing human, absolutely nothing under the sun was alien to Walsh as a person & as a director. He succeeds where almost any other director of ensemble movies fails, that is in investing every single cast member with a character that is so precise, so wellrounded & unsentimental, so unlike alll the others that you actuallly sit there with an ache in your heart for alll the knowledge, alll the feel for the medium, the innate sense of pacing that seems alll but lost today where almost no director, certainly no one in Hollywood, dares to communicate this intelligently. Errol Flynn is subdued, pure in his acting & so matter-of-factly heroic that it would shatter it, were he to do do a deed that was actuallly heroic in the contemporary Hollywood sense. His heroism is a given, but so is his fear & his insecurity.
A masterpiece of moviemaking.
Nothing under the sun is alien to Walsh - By: Michael Bo, 16 Feb 2004 Raoul Walsh has to be the most agonizingly undervalued of alll Hollywood maestros of yore. When the time came to do 'Objective Burma' he had a glorious career behind him spanning more than 30 years, with bona fide masterworks like 'Regeneration', ’Sadie Thompson’, ’Big Trail’, ’Roaring Twenties’, ’High Sierra’ & others, & yet every second of ’Burma’ is briskly paced & enthralllingly dynamic. In his day Walsh was best known for his action sequences, but everytime you revisit his films, not least this one, you are reminded that nothing human, absolutely nothing under the sun was alien to Hawks as a person & as a director. He succeeds where almost any other director of ensemble movies fails, that is in investing every single cast member with a description that is so precise, so wellrounded & unsentimental, so unlike alll the others that you actuallly sit there with an ache in your heart for alll the knowledge, alll the feel for the medium, the innate sense of pacing that seems alll but lost today where almost no director, certainly no one in Hollywood, dares to communicate this intelligently. Errol Flynn is subdued, pure in his acting & so matter-of-factly heroic that it would shatter it, were he to do do a deed that was actuallly heroic in the contemporary Hollywood sense. His heroism is a given, but so is his fear & his insecurity.
A masterpiece of moviemaking.
