YMMV / Unbroken

• Award Snub: The film was striving for a Best Picture nomination at the Academy Awards, but did not due to its mixed critical reception. Angelina Jolie also tried to make sure the acting performances of Jack O'Connell and Miyavi got nominations too, but neither did as well.
• Broken Base: The film received this from the Christian community despite being approved by Louis Zamperini shortly before Zamperini's death in July 2014 (prior to its Christmas release date that year) due to feeling that producer Angelina Jolie neglected to reflect on Zamperini's later conversion to Christianity. Partly as a result of that dispute, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association would release a half-hour documentary titled Captured by Grace in 2015; while Pure Flix Entertainment took it upon themselves to produce a follow-up - with none of the original film's cast and crew - in 2018 titled Unbroken: Path to Redemption.
• Critical Dissonance: The film scored a 51% on the Tomatometer and a 59% on Metacritic. However, the Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes clocks in at 70%, and the audience reviews on Metacritic are overwhelmingly positive. Most critic reviews praised the actors, especially Jack O'Connell, but were all too aware of the fact that it was heavy-handed Oscar Bait and strongly criticized Angelina Jolie for taking too long to tell the story, focusing on the Oscar potential rather than the film, and drawing too many parallels between Zamperini and Jesus Christ.
• Funny Moments: While floating at sea, Louie, Mack, and Phil are starving and come across a seagull. Of course, they kill the seagull and start eating it. Smash Cut to them vomiting. While it does sound disgusting on its own, its execution certainly brings a laugh.
• Iron Woobie: Zamperini. The title says it all.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: In Japan specifically, leading to it almost getting blacklisted in Japanese theaters. This is due to the fact that the Japanese government denies or sanitizes the atrocities Imperial Japan committed during WWII, and almost all Japanese media (educational, historical, cinematic or otherwise) for the period portrays their involvement in the war in a more favorable light.
  • Miyavi himself anticipated this and was initially reluctant to take the role, citing fear of how it would affect his career as both an actor and musician due to him being a Japanese citizen and celebrity. He only accepted the role after deciding it was both faithful to history and did not portray Japan in an exaggeratedly negative light.
• Special Effect Failure: At times the sharks are obviously computer generated.