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"Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre" - Too episodic to truly grip you as far as the characters are concerned. as the film re-creates one true event and/or atrocity after another with the very few characters we get to know leading us to each of these re-creations but doing little else.
But there are some really powerful, shocking moments and sights and the last 15 minutes horrifyingly piles on the kind of heartbreaking, up close and personal tragedy the rest of the film was mostly lacking.
And the final scene is amazingly powerful and affecting.
It brought tears to my eyes and made me hold me 7 month baby girl just that little bit tighter.
And it can be taken far more seriously as a serious, dramatic condemnation of atrocity than the more widely seen, far more exploitative, "Men Behind the Sun".
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