Objective, Burma!

Raoul Walsh, wartime movie, 1945
Their isn't really a per se bad take here. The editing pace, which moves between a certain restraint (not going in for SRS, just the original move-in from establishing) and pretty quick stuff. The dappled lighting can be excellent, most effective when shooting with the 'jungle' obscuring, or when the camera angle is high and the men, the gradations of their face, become part of it. Walsh uses, lightly, an empty front of the depth field that is then used, to add a lttle dynamism.
The most recurrent motif used is the move along the men, a camera pan horizontal and smooth, lingering on each for just enough time to register an expression or half a line. This is also done with cuts. In this move, the men are usually all doing the same thing, looking or crawling or reacting, in minimally different ways. Apart from Errol Flynn, there isn't a great amount of differentiation. Could this be the way to shoot a collective subject?
The film is really pretty low key. There are a few moments of suspense at the start (a nice one on the aeroplane, with a little frenzied camera track and a quick cut), but largely there isn't an over-reaction or sentimentalisation. The violence is harsh on a couple of occassions (squishing sounds), but generally not edited too quick and kept at a distance. There is no gore. Perhaps the most compelling moment is when we are refused a look (obviously for censorship too) at the mutilated face of Jacobs, instead he is seen only legs around a door, as they talk.
So, a pretty quiet film all said and done, that goes on a bit, but with sporadically interesting editing and a few nice shots.