Against All Odds (2025)
- Original title
- 营救飞虎
- Country
- People's Republic of China
- Rated
- IIB
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In 1944, a Chinese resistance brigade works to rescue American Flying Tigers pilots who were shot down over enemy territory. The film focuses on one fictionalized pilot, James Harnett, as the group risks their lives to save him and others from capture.
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What happens
Against All Odds (Chinese: 营救飞虎) is a 2025 Chinese war film that dramatically retells the rescues of eight Flying Tigers pilots, one of whom is Lt. Donald W. Kerr at the dawn of 1944, by the Hong Kong and Kowloon Independent Brigade of the East River Column. Based on true stories, the single American pilot featured is fictionalized as James Harnett, an amalgamation of American volunteers from officers to sergeants. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Heroic Sons and Daughters (1964)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.