Horrible

Rating: 2/10 (9 November 2019)

I saw the original when it came out in 1976 and now this one which I felt like I was watching a video game with their cheap CGI rather than a movie. On the plus side, there was no Matt Garth, not "I'm in love with a Japanese woman" junk and the Japanese spoke, well, Japanese but that was about the only redeeming value. And just like the movie Pearl Harbor, they went to a brief clip of Yamamoto uttering the line "I fear that all we have done was to awaken a sleeping giant......." and just like Pearl Harbor, the audience who has little clue of the history of the Pearl Harbor attack, do not know why he would've said such a thing or even thought it since it's still debatable if he actually said that line in real life or something similar. In Tora! Tora! Tora!, the audience knew exactly why such a line would've been said. The flying sequences were downright ridiculous with planes flying so low that they flew in between the battleships and 20 feet off the ground and down a street and in between buildings, trees and telephone poles or the way Dick Best would land his plane on the carrier. I just wish these movies would focus more on the historical accuracies rather than focus completely on dazzling us with their CGI. At least this wasn't a romance movie in which a war inconvenienced them and Benn Affleck taking to the skies during the Pearl Harbor attack, and taking part in the Doolittle Raid, after coming back from England of course where he defeated the German Luftwaffe!