Kokoda

AroView: Visceral, against-the-odds WWII flick revisits the legendary story of inexperienced Aussie battlers taking on the mighty Japanese army in the Papua New Guinean jungle.

Whilst the characterizations might lack the personal dimensions of more noteworthy war genre films, this succeeds admirably in capturing the atrocious circumstances around which events took place.

“A compelling, vividly detailed, often brutally honest portrait of young men faced with an almost impossible task.” ~Jim Schembri, The Age