Badly implemented CG, shallow characters and heavily dramatised.

Rating: 4/10 (27 May 2020)

The first thing that struck me was that the cgi looks off. It started with the animations. Planes, ships and debris does not move like that. They are using real actors, but everything around them is cg.
The lighting on the actors is very different then on the enviroment . Everything just screams greenscreen. They might have well made the characters cg as well. Then it would not have looked so out of place. It's like they tried to make a serious movie out of modern game cutscenes.
This lack of focus can be found in the rest of the movie as well. The characters are too polished, you do not feel any connection to any of the characters and then the attack of pearl harbor already begins.
Everything is extremely heavily dramatised. You have the cowboys, the honorable guys, the imperial japanese. I think this amazing historical story deserves a lot better and with a cast like this one they should have done better.
I work with 3D software as a profession, if you think that my critical review somehow reflects on veterans.. then I think you've lost some connection with the rest of the world.