Perfect, until it got to the last quarter. The movie sets up this dramatic question of "Will they escape the prison Camp?" The first 75% of the movie is great, in that it shows the prisoners trying to do that. But that question gets answered when a subset of the prisoners does escape. The last 25% suddenly jumps to the various escapades of the prisoners trying to get out of Germany. It feels like a 5-minute epilogue - drawn out to 45 minutes. The whole tone of the movie shifts, with the Nazis becoming crueler, and most of the prisoners failing. It feels like the screenwriters decided to take on the final part so they could film in cool setting and add cool stunts.
Review of The Great Escape
