On-par with "Pearl Harbor" (2001), which means it's not that great...

Rating: 7/10 (6 February 2020)

"Pearl Harbor" (2001) was a solid 6/10 movie, and this movie isn't much better... This movie has an absolute TONNE of CGI, and it's the kind of CGI where you can actually see that it's clearly CGI. I actually laughed at the begining of the movie, where they showed a bunch of CGI guys running on the deck of a ship, and I was like "Humans don't run like that!". You could SO CLEARLY see that it's CGI, like why didn't they just get a real ship to run on? According to the wikipedia page, they actually did shoot some scenes on a real battleship, so why was it deemed necessary to show fake CGI guys running on a ship? It is confusing and hilarious at the same time.
Appart from that, Ed Skrein's fake american accent really made my ears bleed through the entire movie... I don't get why he couldn't just talk normally... I'd rather listen to justin beaver music on loop, than listen to another second of Ed Skrein's fake accent in this movie
I liked the fact that they atleast ATTEMPTED to show the battles from the perspective of the Japanese. The scenes are few and far between, but they tried showing a different perspective at least.
Overall, the movie has way too much CGI and not enough of the Japanese's perspective, but it's an OK movie if you want to watch a war-film for 2hours. 6.5/10