Awful, Unrelatable Characters and Garbage CGI

Rating: 4/10 (5 July 2020)

I've never seen a more impressive list of actors deliver more lackluster performances. It makes you think that whoever was in charge of the movie either had a bad relationship with the actors, or hated them and wanted to make them look bad. The script is stifling, the characters are awkward stereotypes with silly accents that seem dishonest. Each time Dick Best sticks his gum to the dashboard of his plane it is truly cringe-worthy. Something about his gum and chewing it is supposed to be really defining of the character, but is painful. Woody Harrelson as Nimitz no doubt has the great admiral rolling in his grave. Mix eminently hatable characters in with some weird computer generated effects and the whole thing falls flat. It's a great story and one that deserves to be told, but it could be done so much better. There are a lot of great war movies out there, this is not one of them.