So basically a remake of Hell in the Pacific?

I think you're right. As I was watching this I had the same feeling.

Yes you are reading my signature.

That's what I thought by reading the synopsis and I had this in mind for the first part of the movie. But the story then focuses on the slaves' condition of the dracs and it is more a reminder of other sci fi classics as « Time Machine » or « La planète sauvage » aka « Fantastic Planet ». The first part is the longest part though.

And also neither Mifune nor Marvin become pregnant in the pacific! It's another dimension added to the plot of "Enemy Mine".

That was my thought when I saw it on the big screen when it was originally released. Except, of course, it's all touchy-feely with a treacly Hollywood ending. In short, it's awful.

Not a bad analogy, I guess. Saw Enemy Mine in '85 and don't remember ending very well.

Saw Hell/Pacific even longer ago on TV. Read up on it recently (sometime this year).

SPOILERS Ahead? (Pretty old movies, but...)

Don't they both die in "Pacific"? Turning into enemies again as soon as one side or other shows up?
And "alien" dies while helping to free human slaves/POWs from a "Mine" that is run by his side?
But becoming friends, learning to depend on each other are part of Both & are similar good lessons/morals.


(I found it insulting that Movie Execs would think they needed to add a literal Mine to the movie, lest the idiot public wouldn't "get" the Title. Frankly, I never even connected the two until reading the Trivia today.
I'd always thought it was about the two soldiers' relationship. Maybe I'm just dumb in the other direction!)


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