steelblue55 Review of The Naked and the Dead

The Naked and the Dead (1958)

Nolan Ryan and Roger Clemens in the army????

[4/10 · 30 September 2018]

Lots of reviews but not one has mentioned the thing that was the most strange and unreleastic in the combat scenes, the magic hand grenades. Yes the scenery and the visual use of the environment was very well done. But in the combat scene in the field and the one by the mountain pass the same thing happened - after some shooting then someone yells to use hand grenades and they do. Both times they throw them extremely far and right to where the Japanese are. It's more clear in the mountain scene, you see them throw with a sidearm toss that looks like it might go 15 or 20 feet. Then the angle changes to behind them and it blows up maybe 150 feet or 200 feet away right where the enemy is. The first time they also conveniently started fires around all the enemy soldiers. It's ok, if you can't shoot them with a rifle just throw a grenade at them!!!