This is the worst of Boorman's movies I have seen. Boorman is a fine actor and has made many great movies - like "Excalibur" and "Hope and Glory" but this is a total failure. Why? First: The "blue-screen" shooting is terrible with many darklines still left around the actors, this is most visible when they are on the raft in the river. Second: The movie is too short. This movie is only 1h 35min and that is too short for a movie of this kind. Because of its shortness it fails where movies like "Killing fields" and "Salvador" triumphs. It is impossible to "unite" with the actors and actresses world in so short a time and therefor one only looks at this movie and don't feel anything about the horrors that it is supposed to make you upset about. But there is at least one thing good about this movie and that is the performance of Arquette - very convincing and colorfully done, but why didn't you give her an other half hour to give us more depth? Therefore I can't recommend this movie - insteed I advise you to watch Killing Fields by Roland Joffe or Salvador by Oliver Stone or watch another of Boorman's movies.
Review of Beyond Rangoon
