![]() Bushnell was a regional facility for wounded solders from the Mountain States that provided quality medical care to patients. ![]() It was also one of the first hospitals to experimentally use penicillin. It specialized in treating amputations, maxillofacial surgery, neuropsychiatric conditions, and tropical diseases. My rating of "Battle for Saipan" lands on a very generous four out of ten stars.Bushnell General Military Hospital was an Army World War II hospital in Brigham City, Utah from August 1942 to June 1946. If you enjoy World War II movies, then you might get a bit of a kick out of whatever transpires on the screen in "Battle for Saipan", but don't get your hopes up. I have to say that the likes of Casper Van Dien, Louis Mandylor and Jeff Fahey usually make adequate enough movies, but they had nothing to work with in "Battle for Saipan", and it was clearly showing on the screen. And yeah, that definitely helped to keep the movie afloat. What did work for "Battle for Saipan" was the costumes and the weapons though, as they looked authentic enough. It didn't feel or look like anything from World War II. Yeah, director Brandon Slagle delivered a movie that felt like it was recorded at an old abandoned building at some rundown farmstead. Well, strap yourself in firmly, because the movies utterly fails at depicting this in any sense, be it visually, action-wise, sheer number of soldiers present, well, you name it. The movie starts out by stating that the battle that took place at Saipan was referred to as the D-Day of the Pacific. And that single viewing is somewhat of an ordeal to sit through in itself. Sure, it was watchable, but this was hardly a movie that warrants more than a single viewing. So this wasn't exactly a golden moment in war cinema. In fact, the storyline told in "Battle for Saipan" was pretty simplistic, almost to the point of being amateurish. ![]() Yeah, "Battle for Saipan" wasn't exactly in the same league with something like "Saving Private Ryan". And let's just say that if you opt to skip on "Battle for Saipan" on account of the premise of the synopsis and/or the cast ensemble, then you're not missing out on anything great here. I figured that this wasn't going to be a particularly great war movie, but I still opted to sit down and watch what writer and director Brandon Slagle had to offer. ![]()
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