Military Authenticity in question.

Rating: 5/10 (25 November 2019)

I've seen the 1976 version and this one and the first thing I noticed was the "Sloppy" looking uniforms. I'm a veteran and the uniforms looked terrible. Next concern is one minute the pilots are at sea, the next they're back home in Hawaii. The constant jumping from American Carrier to Japanese carrier to aircraft flying to Midway, Japan, Hawaii leaves one constantly say, eh? What just happened? On the plus side are the special effects with the flying sequences. Aircraft looked very authentic even down to the dive brakes on the dauntless dive bombers. I'm not too sure about the methods that the Japanese used with captured U.S. military personnel. This movie was ok for a matinee showing but I almost wish I would have waited for the dvd release.