Director Peter Berg discusses his new film, the true story of All-American football stars who volunteered for the Marines and fought in the Battle of Okinawa, the last and costliest World War II battle in the Pacific.
Filmmaker Peter Berg says his latest World War II drama, "The Mosquito Bowl," deepened his understanding of sacrificial love and the devastating human cost of war, particularly the extraordinary bonds between young men willing to lay down their lives for one another.
No one familiar with the oeuvre of Peter Berg — the action merchant behind the Afghanistan war drama “Lone Survivor” and the improbably pumped-up boardgame adaptation “Battleship” — should approach “The Mosquito Bowl” expecting great restraint or good taste.
Peter Berg’s handsomely made second world war drama about a football game before the battle of Okinawa is stirring but filled with eye-rolling dialogue Forgive me, but it is difficult to not to be a little cynical about The Mosquito Bowl, Peter Berg’s grimly serious action feature situated (and mark…
