In Harm's Way

A young pilot, Jack Turner, was saved by a young local widow named Ying, she risked her life and daughters as she hid the injured American pilot in her house. This is a good story of how she helped him get escape. The films based on true story of Americans escaping Japanese controlled China during second World War with the help of local people.

Compelling story of the often told Doolittle Raiders. Suffers from totally messed up uniforms and insignias.

This is not a film with lots of action, but instead one of quiet heroism that touches the heart. I believe it is based on true historical events, which makes it even more compelling. The actors, particularly the one who plays Ying, a simple woman with enormous courage, do a very good job. Thumbs up for this one.

Another in the formulaic, cheap Chinese films for... I guess the western market as well as domestically? A handful of good American actors, very poorly directed and maybe not with enough prep, so it's very wooden. Terrible CGI for all the war bits, a wraparound with very, very few American actors in a room, and lots of on the ground in China with happy villagers, which is or becomes a maudlin love story. Didn't do a thing for me.

This is an insult to the original classic film. Never should have been made. What a disgrace.

There is an allusion in the film "In Harm's Way" to the Nanking Massacre of January 1938. In this horrific event, there was mass murder and rape committed against the residents of Nanjing by the bellicose Empire of Japan. In the film, the husband of Ying lost his life at Nanking. But this film focuses on a less well-known World War II event, the atrocities committed Zhejiang Province in China. The time is 1942. The place is Tokyo. The action is bombing mission of Jimmy Doolittle's crackerjack pilots in response to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the previous December. Captain Jack Turner is the pilot who has led a successful raid over Tokyo. But when he pilots his aircraft to safety in Zhejiang Province in China, he and his crew must bail out of the damaged plane. Jack is the only crew member not captured by the Japanese. In the main drama of the film, he is taken in and cared for by a kind Chinese widow named Ying, who lives with her daughter Nunu. Jack is seriously wounded with a leg injury. With the potential of grave danger to herself and her daughter, Ying nurses Jack back to health. In the process, the two characters fall in love. The strength of the film is the bonding of Jack and Ying. As an ally of the United States, the Chinese nation helped to rescue many GIs like Jack Turner during the war. 250,000 Chinese civilians of the Zhejiang Province sacrificed their lives. While the film weaves an effective historical yarn, it is the sensitive relationship of Ying and Jack that will be most memorable to viewers. This was a beautiful love story couched in an important historical epoch.

Some of the Chinese dialog didn't feel right, normal or correct for any Chinese speaking to each other, especially this film is about a bunch of villagers living in a remote mountainous area. No kid would say "Fu-Chin (father)" to his mother, but would say "Dad (Die)" or "BaBa", "Fu-Chin" is too literal and popular enough to be used in a mountain village in China. There are so many incorrect and wrong use of the Chinese language in this film's dialog. Those words used in this film simply felt more like highly educated people living in the big cities, these people in this film instead were living in a remote poor village in the mountain area, most of them would be illiterate since its around 1945. So every time, when the Chinese characters speaking, it's just not right but only bad screenplay writers would use such theater language that were not spoken by realistic Chinese people in their daily lives. I often felt that most of the Chinese screenplay writers never could script correct and normal dialog speaking among the common Chinese people, every word just felt staged, like watching actors speaking on a theater stage. They cannot separate, distinguish, or truly grasp the realistic words according to the locations, the era, the time frames, the age differences, the education backgrounds, male or female gender differences....but just lazily and carelessly used the same format to write the scripts' dialog. This is the main reason why most of the time I could only give lower ratings to most Chinese movies, because they just felt false and absolutely ridiculous. This film was made, produced and released before the Japanese Prime Minister, Abe, revisited China a few days ago, and the Chinese Communist higher-ups suddenly changed their attitude to the Japanese government from hateful animosity to brotherhood love and friendship. If this film release date in China was scheduled when Prime Minister Abe's visiting date, then it would be definitely banned. Innocent Chinese villagers were viciously shot or chopping head off by the Japanese are now so unpopular and would be cunningly forbid or not recommended by the Chinese Communist government.

If you are looking for a movie about honor, love and sacrifice. This may be the movie for you. This movie shows The displays the dislike the chinese people had for the Japanese. The sacrifice a few of the villagers displayed keeping the secret of the Americans. Slow movie and limited action movie

When you can't wait for a movie to end you know it is really bad. The acting, story, photography, action, casting, and everything associated with filmmaking was below par. In short, this film should not have been made.