Mister Roberts is a film set during the end of WW2. It follows the crew on a boat which has been named "The Bucket". The main protagonist is Lt. Douglass Roberts who is the 2nd in command on the boat. Roberts is important to the boat because he has been holding the ship together by their tyrant of a captain. Roberts is holding the crew together because none of the crew has been allowed for well over a year. Roberts also has a goal. Roberts wants to be transferred off of the boat and onto a ship that is actually fighting in the war. To get transferred Roberts has to write a letter and the captain then has to accept it and send it on, but that has never happened even though Roberts writes a new letter every week.
I watched Mister Roberts with my brother and dad and at first it wasn't my first pick, but my did is a big movie person and said it was a great movie. For the most part I wasn't super interested in the movie, but as the movie moved along and even after watching the movie I think it was actually a really good movie. The movie is from 1955, but it still has a good story even if we might have seen something like it in a more recent film. When I wasn't enjoying the movie I really didn't like too many of the characters except for Roberts and Doc, the ships surgeon. It makes sense why Roberts is likeable because he is the protagonist, but I just couldn't enjoy many of the other characters until the end of the movie. I liked the Captain character because of how immediately everyone despises him. You just can't like him in any way. The first half of the movie is quite slow with my favorite seen where Roberts humiliates the captain, but beyond that it is really a lot of exposition about the characters and world they are in. Once the crew is granted liberty to go onto land I think that the movie increases in quality. The very end of the movie in my opinion is the best part of the whole movie. It goes with out saying, but SPOILERS! At the very end of the movie Roberts gets transferred to a battleship. At first he is told a lie by Doc, but he eventually tells him that the whole crew wrote up a letter impersonating the captain to give Roberts clearance to leave. After Roberts shares a special moment with the crew where they give Roberts a makeshift medal he leaves and the movie cuts to a couple weeks into the future. The crew is receiving mail and the successor to Roberts, Frank Pulver, gets mail from Mister Roberts. Roberts' letter gives the crew some of his life aboard the ship. There also is a sweet moment where Roberts says that the makeshift medal is hanging in front of him and he would rather wear that medal than the Medal of Honor. The next piece of mail that Pulver gets is from a friend that is on the same ship as Roberts. This is wear things change because we learn that a kamikaze pilot flew into the boat and Roberts was killed. For me this stung because I knew in the back of my head that Roberts wasn't going to be alive by the end of the film, but I never really thought it would happen. Now when I think about the movie I think that the foreshadowing was there the whole time, but I just didn't fully realize until Pulver looked at the new mail. If I were to give the movie a rating out of ten, it would probably be a 7/10 because the ending of the movie is great, but the beginning drags it down a little bit, but I would still recommend it.
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