Not Good

Found it very odd that the three leading roles all went to Americans. Cooper keeps harping on being a "Scotch-Canadian." I take it Ronald Colman, Colin Clive and Cary Grant weren't available!

<<This film may have been OK in 1935 but now it is pretty silly-well acted but silly. The british army of the time had a lot of faults but worrying about how the commanding officer treated his son to the point of desertion isn't one of them.>>

Are you by any chance suggesting that the father/son relationship (and the various issues arising out of it) is a "silly", out-dated matter no longer a concern for films of the 21st Century?

You should be more specific. What was so unbelievable?

My problem with the film was the script. The first half was boring. No real conflict except the father-son melodrama. It gets better after Stone gets kidnapped and McGregor and Forsythe go after him.

“Let's be crooked, but never common”

I think Major Hamilton said it best, Colonel Stone was all army and his son didn't understand that. That story is timeless. The first part of the story wanted to tell us who was the British Army. After watching the movie Gandhi, in this movie I saw devotion to country, protecting what belong to them at any cost. The second part of the movie was amazing. I felt sorry for the son. He wanted to hurt his father. I understand not everyone can withstand torture, so I don't fault him for that. But even he didn't understand what was at stake. Because once he realized his betrayal could not only cost him his father, but someone else, he was the one hurt. That story is timeless also. Good movie.

If we can save humanity, we become the caretakers of the world

I disagree with the idea of judging movies by modern day ideas. I judge them by the time when they were released. There are some silly moments, but they're for comic relief. I love the scene with the snake. In fact, it's the most memorable scene.

It wasn't just about the commanding officer and how he treated his son. Cooper's character already had issues with the father even before the son showed up. He felt he was cold and too willing to let his soldiers die without any sort of response. So then the son shows up and the father seems to be cold and detached even with the son. Just confirming Cooper's character viewpoint(to himself) of the commanding officer's character.

The basic idea to come to a sort of middle ground, I think, there was a time and place for the Commanding officer but there were times when he should have let himself be more feeling too, like with his son, and with Cooper it was the opposite, there was a place for the way he believed action should take place but sometimes the commanding officer's type of response would have served better. Admire the old ways and see that there can be room to some change.

I did think the scenes after the capture were particularly good(and in some cases beautifully shot, the shot of the bamboo under the fingernails torture through the reflection of the shiny tabletop, the scenes where Cooper and Tone get thrown into the cell after their respective tortures, etc.