This was BAAAAD.
I thought this was going to be a movie about a man who uses the power of his mind to overcome the treachery of the jungle. Instead, we get a story about a guy who was simply lucky. A plane spots him in the jungle, just before he starves to death, and that's the end of the story?
Oh, and I didn't know the NVA offered 5-star accommodation for its POWs. They did everything, save for carrying Bale's bags to his room. Uhhh...where was the torture?
"We're going to make a raft," says Bale. Next scene? Two guys floating down the river in a raft. Ummmm...and just how did they manage to do that? And if they could make such a raft, why did they have such a hard time managing to find food? Surely they could have made some type of net/trap for catching fish near the river. Instead, they nearly starve to death. Get real. 6/10.